Institutionalizing Violence

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Institutionalizing Violence is written by Jerome Drevon and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197643698 (ISBN 10) and 9780197643693 (ISBN 13).

"This chapter presents the analytical framework of this book in the contentious politics research agenda. The book situates jihadi groups in a multilevel environment constituted by their political environment, social movement, the security services, the public, and a potential countermovement. This chapter argues that jihadi groups can successively radicalise in interaction with any of these actors. The first argument is that radicalisation forces them to institutionalise along one dimension. The second argument is that the succession of several phases of radicalisation and institutionalisation shapes their long-term trajectories and strategic choices"--