Este trabajo analiza cómo influyen los vínculos sociales preexistentes en la radicalización yihadista salafista proporcionando un enfoque práctico al estudiar datos de esta materia aplicados a España. La metodología empírico-descriptiva consistirá, primeramente, recopilar información literatura sobre y formación redes. Secundariamente, utilizar Base Datos Elcano Yihadistas España (BDEYE) El Ins...

Can focusing on gender help us to better understand the mobilization capacity of jihadi insurgent groups and their social roots in Sahel? A growing literature has explored factors that motivate people join such Africa. The Sahel provides a salient case, but prevalent focus agent-based explanations tended overlook role relations constructions. This article explores potential practice theory shed...

Contemporary terrorism is a complex phenomenon involving a range of non-state actors linked in networked organizations. These organizations, exemplified by the global jihadi movement known as al-Qaeda, are complex non-state actors operating as transnational networks within a galaxy of like-minded networks. These entities pose security threats to nation states and the collective global security....

Large amounts of jihadi video content on YouTube along with the vast array of relational data that can be gathered opens up innovative avenues for exploration of the support base for political violence. This exploratory study analyses the online supporters of jihad-promoting video content on YouTube, focusing on those posting and commenting upon martyr-promoting material from Iraq. Findings sug...

Radical Islam as a political phenomenon has undergone significant changes during the first decades of 21st century. This process was accompanied, firstly, by strengthening unification trends in ideological field, and secondly, development specific “Jihadi Cool” subculture that combined features consumer society (modern music, stylish clothes, Islamic merch, youth magazines, etc.) jihadist agend...