Promoting democracy to stop terror, revisited

Policy Review

Volumn , Issue 159, 2010, Pages

  Hamid, Shadi ^a   Brooke, Steven ^b  

^a Brookings Doha Center   (Qatar)

^b NONE

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References (12)

1. See Thomas Hegghammer, "Jihad, Yes, But Not Revolution: Explaining the Extraversion of Islamist Violence in Saudi Arabia", British Journal of Middle East Studies 36:3 (December 2009).
2. See, for instance, the criticisms made in Alan B. Krueger and David D. Laitin, "Misunderestimating Terrorism", Foreign Affairs (September-October 2004).
3. However, even within this group only a small percentage will resort to violence to oppose a democratic system. Some Salafis even participate in the democratic process.
4. See Samir Amghar, "Le Salafisme en Europe", Politique Etrangere 1(2006).
5. For more on Islamists and democracy
6. see Shadi Hamid, "Parting the Veil", Democracy: A Journal of Ideas (Summer 2007) ;
7. Robert Leiken and Steven Brooke, "The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood", Foreign Affairs (March-April 2007) ;
8. Marc Lynch, "The Brotherhood's Dilemma", Crown Center for Middle East Studies (January 2008) ;
9. and Samer Shehata and Joshua Stacher, "The Brotherhood Goes to Parliament", Middle East Report 240 (Fall 2006).
10. Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Maleckova, "Education, Poverty and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 17:4 (2003).
11. Alan B. Krueger, What Makes a Terrorist? (Princeton University Press, 2007, 75.
12. In What Makes A Terrorist? Krueger bases his assumptions on a data set of 956 "events" from 1997 to 2003 with a specific focus on the "home country" of the perpetrators. This data is represented graphically on pages 73 and 74 (in table 2.3). While the limited time period is of some concern, it also reflects the labor-intensive nature of accounting for country of origin.