Promotional Information

"Moghaddam has given us the Big Picture for better understanding radicalization and terrorism in the 21st century. His psychological analysis shows the deep wounds being inflicted by 'lop-sided' globalization, and the irrational reactions that can arise from people experiencing threatened identities and what they see as possible extinction for their way of life. This book also points to the vital role of women in developing a better future in the Islamic world, and to the importance of resolving the New Global American Dilemma-a dilemma associated with the rhetorical American support for freedom and democracy around the world, while at the same time propping up 'friendly' dictatorships." -- Paul R. Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies and professor of biological sciences at Stanford University,^Lmember of the National Academy of Sciences and recipient of the Crafoord Prize, an explicit substitute for the Nobel Prize in fields of science in which the latter is not given. "Fathali Moghaddam provides us with a welcome long-term, global view of the processes underlying terrorism. Readers will find this a novel approach to promoting the peaceful resolution of conflict in the context of fractured globalization, where an emerging global community is countered by a retreat to ethnocentrism and fundamentalism as socio-cultural and religious groups struggle to protect their social identities." -- Richard Wagner, Editor, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. A dangerous new world
Chapter 2. The psychological citizen and globalization
Chapter 3. Universal needs and the psychological roots of radicalization and terrorism
Chapter 4. One world: Globalization as ideal
Chapter 5. Fractured globalization: Globalization in practice
Chapter 6. Intergroup contact and catastrophic evolution
Chapter 7. Threatened identities, change and globalization
Chapter 8. Universal rights and duties as explosive threats
Chapter 9. The American Dilemma becomes global
Afterward. The veiled solitude: Women as the solution
References
Notes

About the Author

Fathali M. Moghaddam is Professor, Department of Psychology and Director, Conflict Resolution Program, Department of Government, at Georgetown University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education and Research on Terrorism. Dr. Moghaddam has been published extensively on the psychology of intergroup conflict, subjective justice, radicalization, and terrorism. The American Psychological Association's Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence awarded Dr. Moghaddam its 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. His most recent books include From the Terrorists' Point of View: What They Experience and Why They Come to Destroy (Praeger Security International, 2006) and Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations: Psychological Implications for Democracy in Global Context (2008).

Reviews

Increasing globalization encourages terrorism, and the idea of 'one world' fuels violence: that's the concept in How Globalization Spurs Terrorism, which analyzes modern Islamic terrorism in the context of increasing world connections. College-level libraries strong in global studies will find this a fine acquisition.
*The Midwest Book Review*