While much is known about factors associated with deradicalisation and disengagement from violent extremism and terrorism, the underlying mechanisms at play have been under theorised. Literature on criminal desistance has a lot to offer in understanding the process of exiting from extremism, ...
“The United States does not have a real counter-terrorism strategy,” saysMartha Crenshaw. Faced with continued waves of jihadist terror attacks, in the conflict zones of Syria and Iraq but also closer to home, the West seems at a loss to know what to do. Crenshaw is something...
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What should worry us now is that the radicalisation we see, most clearly with President Vladimir Putin, is not just rhetorical. Many on the liberal left, convinced that both sides knew they could not afford a full-on war, thought Putin was bluffing when he massed troops at Ukraine’s borde...
Finally, it must be stressed that syndicalism has its roots in the ideas of the earliest anarchists and, consequently, was not invented in the 1890s. It is true that development of syndicalism came about, in part, as a reaction to the disastrous "propaganda by deed" period, in which indiv...
Surely they would conclude that socialism is about Stalinism, dictatorship, terror and so on? If not, why not? If "sounding like the right" makes criticism of Lenin’s regime anti-revolutionary, then why does this not apply to Stalinism? Simply because Lenin and Trotsky were not at the ...
Despite that it might appear that we are speaking about the Innovators vs the Luddites, this is not the case. Employees need not forget their values at the door when they go to work, but strive to keep true to their beliefs while constructing, and developing processes toward positive uses ...
What this tells us, Saba says, is that the movement is not going to achieve its goals through persuasion alone. “We need to raise the political, economic and social costs,” he says. While it has not been enough to stop the genocide, there have been signs...
While every other couple talks about having rushed forwards, Leah suggests the opposite is also true. “I think if anything this has also slowed us down a little? There’s no sensible way we can meet each other’s friends or families.” This is the dichotomy at the he...