Friction

How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us

Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko

• Explores the ways in which people are radicalized, an issue that is particularly important to the public in the post-9/11 era
• Draws from a wide range of case material from Russia in the late 19th century, the US in the 1970s, and Afghanistan after the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s
• Outlines the effects of government action on radicalization
• Offers new perspectives on radicalization occuring on a large scale, not simply at the individual or group level
• Argues provocatively that the same mechanisms are at work in radicalizing terrorists and the radicalization of states targeted by terrorists

Friction

How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us

Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko

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Friction

How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us

Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko

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Friction

How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us

Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko

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Friction

How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us

Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko

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