Understanding terror networks.

By Marc Sageman. International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, 2004

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Preface 1. The Origins of the Jihad 2. The Evolution of the Jihad 3. The Mujahedin 4. Joining the Jihad 5. Social Networks and the Jihad Conclusion Appendix: Names of Terrorists Glossary of Foreign-Language Terms Bibliography Index

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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CORRELATES OF VIOLENT POLITICAL EXTREMISM IN THE UNITED STATES (2018, background): “Similarly, Sageman (2004) concluded that, at the time extremists joined Islamic terrorist groups, most of them were students, worked as professionals (e.g., doctors and engineers), or performed semiskilled labor.”
Male and Female Suicide Bombers: Different Sexes, Different Reasons? (2008, background): “For example, Sageman found that for 68% of terrorists pre-existing friendship bonds play an important role in formal integration into the extremist group (Sageman 2004).”
What Do Transnational Terrorists Target? Has It Changed? Are We Safer? (2010, methodology): “We also endogenize the changepoint determination using more advanced methods.”
The Making of Violent Extremists (2018, background): “This effect has been demonstrated with regard to gang involvement (Ralphs, Medina, & Aldridge, 2009), tribal violence (Glowacki et al., 2016), and political extremism (Mullins, 2010; Sageman, 2004).”
The topology of dark networks (2008, background): “9,12 Communication among group members becomes more efficient, making a crime or an attack easier to plan, organize, and execute.”
When group membership gets personal: a theory of identity fusion. (2012, background): “…of personal significance (e.g., Kruglanski, Chen, Dechesne, & Fishman, 2009), personal ideology (Atran, 2004), personal circumstances (e.g., Sageman, 2004), a mixture of ideology and personal circumstances (Pedahzur, 2005), and so on (for extensive lists of possible motivations underlying…”
A dynamic model of engagement in normative and non-normative collective action: Psychological antecedents, consequences, and barriers (2015, positive): “Sageman (2004) similarly described how Egyptian Islamic Jihad used violence to provoke even more repressive measures by the government, which would then alienate the general population and mobilise them against the regime.”
Psychological factors in terrorism and counterterrorism: Individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. (2009, background): “For instance, alienated individuals’ quest for social and emotional support (Sageman, 2004) that stems from their personal experience.”
Islamist radicalisation: a root cause model (2009, methodology): “Marc Sageman (2004) illustrates how group processes can lead to terrorist behaviour. Friendship bonds are critical, he claims. Not only are radical ideas and attitudes transmitted through these relationships, the reinforcing power of group norms also has a strong effect on the emergence of radicalis”
The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism (2014, background): “Despite his stated misgivings, Sageman himself (2004, 2008) seems quite cognizant that ideology matters.”