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Who Cares: Why the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Matters (More) to Some EU Member States

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract What drives the salience of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict amongst EU member states? This article employs domestic foreign policy theories to explain the factors underlying variation in salience, estimated analysing all country statements made at the United Nations General Assembly between 1993 and 2017.
Valerio Vignoli, Michal Onderco, Irena Kalhousová   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Economy of Attention: Media Salience, Voter Cognition, and Electoral Accountability

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We review conceptual and empirical contributions to the political economy of attention, with a focus on how attention allocation shapes political behavior and electoral accountability. The review distinguishes between endogenous (goal‐directed) and exogenous (stimulus‐driven) attention and examines how these concepts are incorporated into ...
Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Mobilisation to Terrorism and Implications for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: The Case of Abdullah Azzam

Journal for Deradicalization, 2023
Social mobilisation theory (SMT) remains an underutilised lens in examining how religion can be central to radicalisation processes. This paper provides a novel application of SMT to better appreciate the role played by religious ideologues in mobilising
Stephanie Scott-Smith, Mariam Farida, Julian Droogan   +2 more
doaj  

Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism

Abstract The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism explores how counter-radicalization policies have come to dominate European counterterrorism and security. Using interviews with practitioners across seven European nations, it documents how national security policies have been repurposed to identify individuals deemed ‘vulnerable’ to
Heath-Kelly, Charlotte, Shanaah, Sadi
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In Conversation with Mubin Shaikh: From Salafi Jihadist to Undercover Agent inside the "Toronto 18" Terrorist Group [PDF]

, 2016
This interview with former undercover agent Mubin Shaikh can help academics and security practitioners understand the key role played and the challenges faced by covert human intelligence sources within domestic terrorist groups. The interview highlights
Burgt, Y.E.M. van der, Dalebout, H., Deelder, A.M., Keijzer, J. de, Klychnikov, O., Nessen, M.A., Ohana, D., Palmblad, M., Plas-Duivesteijn, S.J. van der, Veelen, P.A. van, Wulff, T.   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Cloistered justice: The opposing trends of barricade and respective secrecy

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Two recent reports illustrate contrasting trends in open justice exceptions conceptualised as respective and barricade secrecy. Respective secrecy protects the parties involved and their constitutive social ties and, as evaluation report into the Family Court Transparency Pilot indicates, has been shrinking.
LYDIA MORGAN
wiley   +1 more source

The complexities in Jordan's institutional response to violent extremism [PDF]

Journal of Regional Security
Violent Extremism (VE) in Jordan is mainly driven by structural factors on the community rather than individual level. This necessitates a multi-faceted services-oriented institutional response to VE.
Bondokji Neven, Mhadeen Barik, Bint Faisal Aisha, Štikovac Clark Jadranka   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychosocial Prevention Programs against Radicalization and Extremism: A Meta-Analysis of Outcome Evaluations

European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2020
Politically, religiously, and otherwise motivated radicalization and violent extremism is a topic of high priority in many countries. Therefore, beyond intelligence and police measures, there is a strong increase of psychosocial prevention programs in ...
Irina Jugl, Friedrich Lösel, Doris Bender, Sonja King   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Political Economy of Emergency: Postcolonialism, Crisis Governance and Decolonial Alternatives

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The political rhetoric surrounding the Horn of Africa is perpetually framed through narratives of crisis, tragedy and emergency. These labels, rather than simply being used to describe instability, function as tools of governance to normalise dysfunction and entrench cycles of dependency.
HOPE JOHNSON
wiley   +1 more source