Social Movement De-Radicalisation and the Decline of Terrorism: The Morphogenesis of the Irish Republican Movement

by Gordon Clubb

By drawing on social movement theories, this book explains how terrorist movements decline, using the case of Irish Republicanism.

The continuity of terrorism and political violence from generation to generation demonstrates the need to go beyond a focus on groups or individuals in order to explain how terrorism ends. The concept of de-radicalisation has been critiqued for its lack of explanatory value in accounting for disengagement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367596032
• ISBN13: 9780367596033
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages