Mechanisms of political radicalization: Pathways toward terrorism

Terrorism and Political Violence

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 415-433

  McCauley, Clark ^a,b,c   Moskalenko, Sophia ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c National Consortium for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (NC START)   (United States)

Author keywords

Pyramid model; Radicalization; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 46849101041     PISSN: 09546553     EISSN: 15561836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09546550802073367     Document Type: Article

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