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Explaining the appeal of Islamic radicals
Alan Richards, University of California Santa Cruz

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ABSTRACT:

Why do “Islamic radicals”—including the partisans of al-Qaeda and other followers of Osama bin Laden--enjoy so much sympathy in the Middle East and the wider Muslim world?

This Global Policy Brief explores four socioeconomic roots of Islamic radicalism:

- The multidimensional crisis of the Muslim world

- The rage of the young, a majority of the population in the Middle East, are faced with poor livelihood prospects

- Increasing poverty and collapsing cities

- Failures of government.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Alan Richards, "Explaining the appeal of Islamic radicals" (January 15, 2003). Center for Global, International and Regional Studies. Global Policy Briefs. Paper GPB1.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgirs/gpb/GPB1

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