TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Alienation and its discontents
JO  - European journal of international relations
A1  - Egerton, Frazer
SP  - 453
EP  - 474
VL  - 17
IS  - 3
N2  - Terrorism, and particularly its militant Salafist form, remains an oft-discussed but often poorly understood phenomenon. There is an ever-expanding body of literature on militant Salafism in the West. A great deal of this offers some manner of alienation as an explanation as to why a path of militancy was pursued. This article explores what explanatory value alienation is felt to offer such accounts. It then considers some of the considerable problems that face these claims, difficulties that seriously undermine the usefulness of alienation as a concept that helps us to understand militancy.<p /> 
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SN  - 1354-0661
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066109350056
ID  - ref1
ER  -