Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us Review

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Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us ReviewThis is a highly informative work that very uniquely combines a largely academic approach but in a very engaging and easily readable format. For those that approach the study of terrorism from an academic perspective this will come as a very pleasant surprise!
Written primarily from a social psychology standpoint but borrowing sometimes from Social Movement Theory (in particular Donatella Della Porta and her work on Italian and German leftist terrorism) FRICTION presents 12 different pathways to radicalization into terrorist activity. The authors present these 12 pathways (grouped into three layers much like Della Porta's Micro, Meso, and Macro levels) in a series of explanatory vignettes using the 19th century Russian leftist terrorist group People's Will juxtaposed with a modern example primarily but not exclusively drawn from Islamic terrorist figures.
In harmony with other recent academic findings, the authors underline the varied nature and goals of terrorism and terrorists by demonstrating the various pathways that can lead individuals to commit violent political acts. Particularly noteworthy are the number of pathways to violent radicalization that could be said to be non-rational in that they are responses neither to ideology nor to political exigencies, but rather to combinations of sometimes subtle social factors such as group dynamics, boundary hardening, and even love. Also in keeping with most modern scholarship on the topic, the authors reject psychopathology as a factor in political radicalization.
This is not a social science work -- the presentation of the 12 pathways appears to be exploratory based on a broad literature review primarily from the social psychology realm. As such, topics such as Political Opportunity Structure are not addressed. Perhaps most unfortunately, a topic I would think social psychology would be well equipped to handle, de-radicalization, is also not addressed.
Overall, a fantastic work.
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