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Pragmatic Terrorism: Challenging Common Assumptions
Author(s) -
Pollichieni Luciano
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.12955
Subject(s) - ideology , terrorism , political science , epistemology , criminology , sociology , social psychology , psychology , law , philosophy , politics
Both books successfully deconstruct common assumptions on modern terrorist groups. They show precisely how the support and adherence to such organisations cannot be explained only by the adherence to a Salafi‐jihadi ideology by their members and they demonstrate the reasons behind the rise of jihadi proto‐states, which are based on very pragmatic reasons.