Socio-Economic Roots of Radicalism?: Towards Explaining the Appeal of Islamic Radicals
By Prof Alan Richards / Published July 1, 2003
Author: Prof Alan Richards
The author addresses the critical questions involved in understanding and coping with the roots of Islamic radicalism. He provides particular attention to the links between radicalism and a series of crises associated with modernization in the Islamic World. The result is a thoughtful and probing study including policy recommendations for U.S. military and civilian decision makers that makes intelligible the complex subject of Islamic radicalism.