Year: 2010
Type: report
Abstract: Islamism and Radicalisation -the Denmark SchoolThe ambition of the Denmark School is to remedy the fragmentation between different fields of research in Islamism.The Denmark School wants to explore the phenomena of 'Islamism' in its different manifestations and to highlight the mechanisms of radicalisation processes among Muslim youth in Europe.One of the innovative approaches is the linkage between 'soft security' and 'hard security'.While other projects mainly focus on terrorism, this project first of all focuses on Islamism.The identification of Islamism requires a distinction between three possible phases: 1) ideology, 2) movements and 3) political regimes.The study of Islamism in international relations is usually limited to treating only one aspect of Islamism as a transnational actor, namely terrorism and the corresponding anti-terror measures.But Islamist ambitions and strategies are expressed through a number of other means, such as foreign policy, boycotts, crises, strategic alliances and perhaps even the acquisition of WMD.These must be mapped in order to provide an empirical basis for studying contemporary Islamist world views and conceptions of international relations.
Authors: Lene Kühle, Lasse Lindekilde, Radicalisation
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W649988700