Over the past decade, analysts have proposed several frameworks to explain the process of radicalization into violent extremism (RVE). These frameworks are based primarily on rational, conceptual models which are neither guided by theory nor derived from systematic research. This article reviews recent (post-9/11) conceptual models of the radicalization process and recent (post-9/11) empirical ...

Radicalization is the process by which people come to adopt increasingly extreme political, social or religious ideologies. When radicalization leads to violence, radical thinking becomes a threat to national security. De-radicalization programs are part of an effort to combat violent extremism and terrorism. This type of initiatives attempt to alter violent extremists radical beliefs and viole...

Developments leading to the attack on the WTC and the ensuing war on terrorism are discussed– a matter of "north meets south" rather than "east meets west". Passionlessness, as a new type of alienation characterizing both secularized information society and the dispassionate way the "war on terror" is waged, is contrasted with the certainly passionate and religion-driven extremism behind al-Qae...