Using data drawn from a survey conducted shortly after the 2002 elections, we investigate the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) election victory from the perspective of inter-party vote movements. Our aim is not only to identify the parties from which the AKP votes originated, but also the segments of these parties' voter bases the party appealed to in particular. Descriptive statistics sug...

In this article, the term “radicalisation” is discussed as a process that appears to be defensive and reactionary response of various individuals suffering from social, economic, political forms exclusion, subordination, alienation, humiliation, isolation. To effect, article challenges mainstream understanding radicalisation. doing so, work concentrates on elaboration radicalisation processes s...

Afghanistan is in danger of capsizing in a perfect storm of insurgency that mimics operations and tactics witnessed in Iraq. This article assesses this insurgency and the re-emergent Taliban. The common view of the Taliban as simply a radical Afghan Islamist movement is overly simple, for that organization has been able to build on tribal kinship networks and a charismatic mullah phenomenon to ...