Black Markets and Militants : Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa

• Tác giả: Khalid Mustafa Medani
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9781009257749 (ebook)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 297.27 Islam and social sciences
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xxi, 403 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 313140
• Chủ đề: 1. Islam and politics; 2. Islamic fundamentalism; 3. Terrorism--Religious aspects; 4. Terrorism--Africa; 5. Terrorism--Middle East

Tóm tắt

Understanding the political and socio-economic factors which give rise to youth recruitment into militant organizations is central to grasping some of the most important issues that affect the contemporary Middle East and Africa. In this book, Khalid Mustafa Medani explains why youth are attracted to militant organizations, examining the specific role economic globalization plays in determining how and why militant activists emerge. Based on extensive fieldwork, Medani offers an in-depth analysis of the impact of globalization, neoliberal reforms and informal economic networks on the rise and evolution of moderate and militant Islamist movements. In an original contribution to the study of Islamist and ethnic politics, he shows the importance of understanding when and under what conditions religious rather than other forms of identity become politically salient. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.