ENGINEERS OF JIHAD / THE CURIOUS CONNECTION BETWEEN VIOLENT EXTREMISM AND EDUCAT

The violent actions of a few extremists can alter the course of history, yet there persists a yawning gap between the potential impa ct of these individuals and what we understand about them. In Engineers of Jihad, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog uncover two unex pected facts, which they imaginatively leverage to narrow that gap: they find that a disproportionate share of Islamist radicals com e from an engineering background, and that Islamist and right-wing extremism have more in common than either does with left-wing ext remism, ...[Read more]