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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.
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Keywords
- arab spring
- Assad
- Comparative Politics
- KUnlatched
- Middle East
- political movements
- Political Science
- Political Science / Comparative Politics
- Politics
- Politics & government
- Society & Social Sciences
- Terrorism
- terrorist organizations
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics
- uprising
- violent movement
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315505817web: https://www.routledge.com/Trust-and-Terror-Open-Access-Social-Capital-and-the-Use-of-Terrorism/Shamaileh/p/book/9781138201736
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