Bibliography

  1. This book is an effort to distill several years of research into extremist ideologies and propaganda into a short, accessible text. As such, readers may have more specific questions about how some of these concepts were developed. The readings below provide considerably more detail about the process that led to these conclusions.
  2. On the ideological evolution of British Israelism into Christian Identity and how the identity construction concepts in this book were derived:
  3. Berger, J. M. “Extremist Construction of Identity: How Escalating Demands for Legitimacy Shape and Define In-Group and Out-Group Dynamics.” International Centre for Counter-Terrorism—The Hague 8, no. 7 (2017). https://icct.nl/publication/extremist-construction-of-identity-how-escalating-demands-for-legitimacy-shape-and-define-in-group-and-out-group-dynamics.
  4. On concepts used in Islamic State propaganda, including additional identity construction elements and crisis-solution constructs:
  5. Berger, J. M. “Countering Islamic State Messaging through ‘Linkage-Based’ Analysis.” International Centre for Counter-Terrorism—The Hague 8, no. 2 (2017). https://icct.nl/publication/countering-islamic-state-messaging-through-linkage-based-analysis.
  6. On crisis-solution constructs and systems of meaning:
  7. Ingram, H. J. “The Strategic Logic of the ‘Linkage-Based’ Approach to Combating Militant Islamist Propaganda: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations.” International Centre for Counter-Terrorism—The Hague 8, no. 6 (2017). https://icct.nl/publication/the-strategic-logic-of-the-linkage-based-approach-to-combating-militant-islamist-propaganda-conceptual-and-empirical-foundations.
  8. On uncertainty-identity theory:
  9. Hogg, Michael A., and Danielle Blaylock, eds. Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty. Malden, MA: Wiley, 2012.
  10. On countering violent extremism, including a review of research related to causes and drivers of extremism and the individual radicalization model:
  11. Berger, J. M. “Making CVE Work: A Focused Approach Based on Process Disruption.” International Centre for Counter-Terrorism—The Hague 7, no. 5 (2016). https://icct.nl/publication/making-cve-work-a-focused-approach-based-on-process-disruption.

Additional Readings

  1. Berger, J. M. “Tailored Online Interventions: The Islamic State’s Recruitment Strategy.” CTC Sentinel 8, no. 10 (October 2015).
  2. Berger, J. M. “The Turner Legacy: The Storied Origins and Enduring Impact of White Nationalism’s Deadly Bible.” International Centre for Counter-Terrorism—The Hague 7, no. 8 (2016). https://icct.nl/publication/the-turner-legacy-the-storied-origins-and-enduring-impact-of-white-nationalisms-deadly-bible.
  3. Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970, expanded Kindle edition 2011.
  4. Evans, Richard J. The Coming of the Third Reich. New York: Penguin, 2005.
  5. Faust, D. G., ed. The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830–1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
  6. Hofstadter, Richard. The Paranoid Style in American Politics. New York: Vintage, 2012.
  7. Landes, Richard, and Steven T. Katz. The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-Year Retrospective on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York: New York University Press, 2012.
  8. Léglu, C., R. Rist, and C. Taylor, eds. The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 2013.
  9. Naimark, Norman M. Genocide: A World History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
  10. Schmid, Alex P. “The Definition of Terrorism.” In The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research, ed. Alex P. Schmid, 39–157. New York: Routledge, 2011.
  11. Stern, Jessica, and J. M. Berger. ISIS: The State of Terror. New York: Harper­Collins, 2015.
  12. Tajfel, Henri, M. G. Billig, R. P. Bundy, and Claude Flament. “Social Categorization and Intergroup Behaviour.” European Journal of Social Psychology 1, no. 2 (1971): 149–178.
  13. Waters, Anita M. “Conspiracy Theories as Ethnosociologies: Explanation and Intention in African American Political Culture.” Journal of Black Studies 28, no. 1 (1997): 112–125.
  14. Zelin, Aaron. “The Intellectual Origins of al-Qaeda’s Ideology: The Abolishment of the Caliphate through the Afghan Jihad, 1924–1989.” Master’s thesis, Brandeis University, 2010.