RT Book
T1 Black markets and militants: informal networks in the Middle East and Africa
A1 Medani, Khalid Mustafa 1965-
LA English
PP Cambridge New York, NY
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1762828111
AB Understanding the political and socio-economic factors which give rise to youth recruitment into militant organizations is at the heart of grasping some of the most important issues that affect the contemporary Middle East and Africa. In this book, Khalid Mustafa Medani explains why youth are attracted to militant organizations, examining the specific role economic globalization, in the form of outmigration and expatriate remittance inflows, plays in determining how and why militant activists emerge. The study challenges existing accounts that rely primarily on ideology to explain militant recruitment. Based on extensive fieldwork, Medani offers an in-depth analysis of the impact of globalization, neoliberal reforms and informal economic networks as a conduit for the rise and evolution of moderate and militant Islamist movements and as an avenue central to the often, violent enterprise of state building and state formation. In an original contribution to the study of Islamist and ethnic politics more broadly, he thereby shows the importance of understanding when and under what conditions religious rather than other forms of identity become politically salient in the context of changes in local conditions.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 363-390, Register
CN BP190.5.T47
SN 978-1-108-83251-9
K1 Terrorism : Religious aspects : Islam
K1 Terrorism : Middle East
K1 Terrorism : Africa
K1 Islamic fundamentalism
K1 Islam and politics
K1 Schwarzmarkt
K1 Schattenwirtschaft
K1 Soziales Netzwerk
K1 Miliz
K1 Jugend
K1 Dschihadismus
K1 Militanz
K1 Islam
K1 Ideologie
K1 Globalisierung
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General
K1 Naher Osten
K1 Mittlerer Osten
K1 Nordafrika