Dynamics of Political Violence

Lorenzo Bosi, European University Institute, Italy, Chares Demetriou, Queen's University Belfast, UK and Stefan Malthaner, Bielefeld University, Germany.

Dynamics of Political Violence examines how violence emerges and develops from episodes of contentious politics. By considering a wide range of empirical cases, such as anarchist movements, ethno-nationalist and left-wing militancy in Europe, contemporary Islamist violence, and insurgencies in South Africa and Latin America, this volume of research identifies the forces that shape radicalization and violent escalation and contributes to the process-and-mechanism-based models of contentious politics that have been developing over the past decade in both sociology and political science.

Chapter 1 A Contentious Politics Approach to the Explanation of Radicalization, Lorenzo Bosi, Chares Demetriou, Stefan Malthaner; Part I Dynamics of Interaction between Oppositional Movements/Groups and the State; Chapter 2 The Mechanisms of Emotion in Violent Protest, Hank Johnston; Chapter 3 A Typology of Backfire Mechanisms, Lasse Lindekilde; Chapter 4 Processes of Radicalization and De-radicalization in Western European Prisons (1965¿1986), Christian G. De Vito; Part II Competition and Conflict; Chapter 5 Competitive Escalation During Protest Cycles, Donatella della Porta; Chapter 6 Intra-movement Competition and Political Outbidding as Mechanisms of Radicalization in Northern Ireland, 1968¿1969, Gianluca De Fazio; Chapter 7 The Limits of Radicalization, Devashree Gupta; Part III Dynamics of Meaning Formation; Chapter 8 Contentious Interactions, Dynamics of Interpretations, and Radicalization, Eitan Y. Alimi, Hank Johnston; Chapter 9 Radical or Righteous? Using Gender to Shape Public Perceptions of Political Violence, Jocelyn Viterna; Chapter 10 From National Event to Transnational Injustice Symbol, Thomas Olesen; Part IV Dynamics of (Transnational) Diffusion; Chapter 11 Radicalization from Outside, Eduardo Romanos; Chapter 12 Protest Diffusion and Rising Political Violence in the Turkish ¿68 Movement, Emin Alper; Chapter 13 The Evolution of the al-Qaeda-type Terrorism, Ekaterina Stepanova; Chapter 14 Conclusion, Martha Crenshaw;