Scott Nicholas Romaniuk

This book provides a homogeneous theoretical framework on radicalization and de-radicalization based on previous literature and several new original elements that are the product of the research of the three authors; this framework is then applied to three different historical scenarios. The aim of the book is to provide a complete and comprehensive framework to understand the phenomenon of jihadist radicalization and deradicalization. It is based on a wide selection of multidisciplinary literatures which have treated the topic from different perspectives in order to depict a picture as complete as possible. Such a multidisciplinary approach is enriched by original elements derived from the authors’ work and empirical research. This theoretical framework is applied to three different case-studies: the case of Hamas in Palestine, the case of the Islamic Group in Egypt and the cases of Ennahdha and Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia. All these groups showed rather different paths of radicalization and only two of them deradicalized. Through the analysis of their historical paths, the authors elicit the common mechanisms and dynamics that, according to the different contexts, led them to different or similar developments. This book will be of much interest to students of deradicalisation, counter-terrorism, Middle Eastern studies and International Relations.

Since the cessation of the Cold War, the dynamic of relations between European states has been one of dramatic and continuous change. In the last ten years, an extraordinary sequence of events has unfolded in the ex-Soviet constellation, including EU enlargement, NATO expansion, and Russian opportunism in efforts to fulfill and defend the geostrategic interests of these and other state and non-state actors. Competing Powers: Security in the Wider Black Sea Region, edited by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk, delivers essential reflections on issues of foreign, security, and defense policy, militarism, conditionality, and democracy promotion through sector-specific cooperation. Articulate and faultlessly researched, the contributors of this volume adeptly navigate the morass of elements taking form in the European space, and provide provocative accounts of the factors challenging peace and security in an ever evolving Europe and its hotly contested spheres. This volume brings together experts who have distinguished themselves in public and academic spheres, all of whom deliver striking accounts of the forces that have and continue to hammer the Black Sea Region and its inhabitants.