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By Frances L. Flannery
This ebook explores a cross-cultural worldview referred to as 'radical apocalypticism' that underlies the vast majority of terrorist activities within the twenty-first century.
Although no longer all apocalypticism is violent, in its severe kinds radical apocalypticism supplies upward push to terrorists as assorted as contributors of Al Qaeda, Anders Behring Breivik, or Timothy McVeigh. In its secular adaptations, it additionally motivates ideological terrorists, corresponding to the eco-terrorists Earth Liberation entrance or The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. This ebook presents an unique paradigm for distinguishing among peaceable and violent or radical sorts of apocalypticism and analyses the historical past, significant variations, and features of the apocalyptic proposal process. utilizing an inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural process, this booklet discusses the mechanisms of radicalization and dynamics of perceived oppression and violence to explain anew the self-identities, motivations, and ambitions of a extensive swath of terrorists. As traditional counter-terrorism methods have to date did not stem the cycle of terrorism, this method indicates a complete "cultural" approach to scuffling with terrorism that addresses the allure of radical apocalyptic terrorist ideology itself.
This ebook might be of a lot curiosity to scholars of apocalypticism, political violence, terrorism and counter-terrorism, intelligence reports, non secular reports, and defense studies.
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