“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...
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, ...
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 ...
The danger of ISIS fighters returning to Europe has already been felt in France, and a recent headline in France’s leading newspaper,Le Monde, even publicly asks what the Islamic State is capable of in Europe.4A current example of this danger can be found in the case of Mehdi Nemmouche, ...
Swiss social policies are federalised and embedded in a multilevel governance that links the local and regional levels with the federal level and is marked by the principle of subsidiarity. In this chapter, we analyse governance arrangements in Geneva an
“At the same time, criticising the state of Israel is equated with antisemitism. But that’s not true. I have Jewish people in my circle – my brother is dating a Jewish woman. In the end, it’s about politics, not at all religion.”– Sami, 49 ...
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 ...