Extremism in revolutionary movements

Radicalization as a reaction to failure: an economic model of islamic extremism

This paper views Islamist radicals as self-interested political revolutionaries and builds on a general model of political extremism developed in a previous paper (Ferrero, 2002), where extremism is modelled as a production factor whose effect on expected revenue is initially positive and then turns negative, and whose level is optimally chosen by a revolutionary organization. The organization ...

Media and Revolutionary Movements in the Arab Countries

وجوه تمایز نهضت‌های انقلابی و گروه‌های افراطی در جهان اسلام

The formation of Islamic movements and extremist groups in the contemporary Islamic world has raised many questions about the fields, goals, and approaches related to Islamist groups and movements for sociology scholars. Given the differences between extremist groups and Islamic movements, the difference in their formation is of particular importance. Accordingly, the present study seeks to ans...

The Causes of the Emergence of Islamic Extremism in the Wahhabi Sect and the Tendencies towards it

Extremism is a notion, which becomes meaningful in democratic and lawful societies. This is sometimes interchangeable with the terms, Fundamentalism and terrorism. It is often said that one who aims to fight against terrorism, must first challenge and overcome extremism. Thus, Analysis of the potentials of extremism in a society is highly articulated. Whereas Fundamentalism intends to bring abo...

Exploring the Dark Side of the Web: Collection and Analysis of U.S. Extremist Online Forums

Contents in extremist online forums are invaluable data sources for extremism reseach. In this study, we propose a systematic Web mining approach to collecting and monitoring extremist forums. Our proposed approach identifies extremist forums from various resources, addresses practical issues faced by researchers and experts in the extremist forum collection process. Such collection provides a ...