JM Berger, Extremism — you have been alerted, informed
[ posted for your considerable edification by Charles Cameron — tweet-stream by JM Berger ]
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Friend JM Berger‘s recent work sums to a book to be published in September. This tweet-stream brings you up to date on his process.
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My year-in-review thread: This year I've been working a fairly unified theme, developing a framework for studying extremism and radicalization. pic.twitter.com/PuIk2rcXSC
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The most important piece of this was Extremist Construction of Identity, a paper published by the Counter Terrorism Strategic Communications program at @ICCT_TheHague https://t.co/HwOXkfAqkt pic.twitter.com/9Ou8izCqNZ
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The framework was derived from a detailed analysis of the ideology that spawned Christian Identity, a violent white nationalist belief system. In two follow-up papers, I applied the framework to the ideology of ISIS.
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The first, presented at Europol and published by @ICCT_TheHague looked at a historical piece of ISIS propaganda https://t.co/fbBYlhmekg pic.twitter.com/4rXmHgMyrx
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The second, published by @ICCT_TheHague, looked at a more recent piece of ISIS propaganda, suggesting messaging strategies in light of its disastrous loss of territory https://t.co/ksLNkEe5rI pic.twitter.com/hyWG9bT8ys
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All of this raises the question of what policy makers mean when they say they're going to "defeat the extremist ideology" https://t.co/Bt9Z6VX0u5
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This research also helped inform a piece for @WarOnTheRocks about the alarming current U.S. political situation https://t.co/oFKy5IzgQS
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Relatedly, I wrote about the Trump administration's malevolent dismantling and rebranding of CVE https://t.co/IXqiE04dEy
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