Bart Schuurman

Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist

A Multilevel Analysis of Involvement in the Dutch Hofstadgroup, 2002-2005

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Produktbeschreibung

This book advances a multicausal and multilevel understanding of involvement in European homegrown jihadism through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9789462986930
• ISBN-10: 9462986932
• Artikelnr.: 49566681

Autorenporträt

Dr. Bart Schuurman is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University's Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), based in The Hague.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments, Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1 The Hofstadgroup -
Islamist terrorism in the Netherlands 1.2 Studying involvement in European
homegrown jihadism 1.3 Existing literature on the Hofstadgroup 1.3.1
Journalistic accounts of the Hofstadgroup 1.3.2 Primary-sources based
academic research on the Hofstadgroup 1.3.3 Secondary-sources based
academic research on the Hofstadgroup 1.3.4 Insights by proxy 1.3.5
Research on the Hofstadgroup by government agencies 1.4 Claim to
originality 1.5 Research questions 1.6 Research method 1.7 Sources of
information 1.7.1 Using police files to study terrorism 1.7.2 Using
interviews to study terrorism 1.8 Ethical guidelines 1.9 A note on
terminology 1.10 Outline 2. Studying involvement in terrorism 2.1
Introduction 2.2 Issues in terrorism research 2.2.1 An overreliance on
secondary sources 2.3 Making sense of involvement in terrorism 2.3.1
Structural-level explanations for involvement in terrorism 2.3.2
Group-level explanations for involvement in terrorism 2.3.3
Individual-level explanations for involvement in terrorism 2.3.4
Interrelated perspectives 2.4 Limitations 2.5 A definitional debate 2.5.1
Terrorism 2.5.2 Radicalism and extremism 2.5.3 Jihad & homegrown jihadism
2.6 Conclusion 3. A history of the Hofstadgroup 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The
emergence of homegrown jihadism in the Netherlands 3.3 2002: The
Hofstadgroup's initial formation 3.4 2003: Would-be foreign fighters and
international connections 3.5 2004: Individualistic plots and the murder of
Theo van Gogh 3.5.1 Towards the murder of Theo van Gogh 3.5.2 Violent
resistance to arrest 3.6 2005: From 'Hofstad' to 'Piranha' 3.6.1 Spring and
summer 2005: renewed signs of terrorist intentions 3.6.2 The second and
third potential plots come to light 3.7 An overview of the court cases 3.8
Conclusion 4. The ideological and organizational nature of the Hofstadgroup
4.1 Introduction 4.1.1 Drawing the Hofstadgroup's boundaries 4.2 Homegrown
jihadism 4.2.1 The Hofstadgroup's homegrown aspects 4.3 Ideology and
terrorism 4.3.1 The Hofstadgroup's ideology 4.4 Defining terrorist
organizations 4.4.1 The Hofstadgroup's organizational structure 4.5 Group
involvement in terrorism? 4.6 Conclusion 5. Structural-level factors:
facilitating and motivating involvement 5.1 Introduction 5.1.1
Structural-level factors influencing involvement in terrorism 5.2
Preconditions: providing opportunities for terrorism 5.2.1 The Internet
5.2.2.1 The Internet and the Hofstadgroup 5.2.2 Popular support for
terrorism 5.2.2.1 Popular support for the Hofstadgroup 5.2.3 External
assistance 5.2.3.1 The Hofstadgroup's external connections 5.2.4 Social or
cultural facilitation of violence 5.2.4.1 Social facilitation for violence
and the Hofstadgroup 5.2.5 Ineffective counterterrorism 5.2.5.1
Counterterrorism lapses as enablers of the Hofstadgroup 5.2.6 Political
opportunity structure 5.2.6.1 Political opportunity structure and the
Hofstadgroup 5.3 Preconditions: providing motives for terrorism 5.3.1
(Relative) deprivation and intergroup inequality 5.3.1.1 Relative
deprivation and the Hofstadgroup 5.3.2 Political grievances 5.3.2.1
Political grievances among Hofstadgroup participants 5.3.3 A clash of value
systems? 5.3.3.1 The Hofstadgroup as a clash of value systems 5.4
Structural-level precipitants: Submission, part 1 5.5 Conclusion