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Why do some individuals choose to protest political grievances via non-violent means, while others take up arms? What role does whom we trust play in how we collectively act? This book explores these questions by delving into the relationship between interpersonal trust and the nature of the political movements that individuals choose to join. Utilizing the examples of the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Syria, a novel theoretical model that links the literature on social capital and interpersonal trust to violent collective action is developed and extended. Beyond simply bringing together two lines of literature, this theoretical model can serve as a prism from which the decision to join terrorist organizations or violent movements may be analyzed. The implications of the theory are then examined more closely through an in-depth look at the behavior of members of political movements at the outset of the Arab Spring, as well as statistical tests of the relationship between interpersonal trust and terrorism in the Middle East and globally. Trust and Terror will be of interest to scholars of Comparative Politics and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315505817, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Keywords
- Abdel Fattah El Sisi
- Abdelhakim Belhadj
- Amelia II
- Arab Barometer
- Domestic Terrorist Activity
- Domestic Terrorist Incidents
- Ethno Linguistic Fractionalization
- Generalized Interpersonal Trust
- Indirect Negative Relationship
- Jabhat Al Nusra
- Large Scale Collective Action
- Mohammed Bouazizi’s Self-immolation
- National Transitional Council
- Ordered Probit Regression Model
- Particularized Trust
- Primary Regression Analysis
- Primary Regression Models
- Rebel’s Dilemma
- Saif Al Islam Al Qaddafi
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement::JPWG Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement::JPWL Terrorism, armed struggle
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence
- young man
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315505817Editions