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Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation in Higher Education
This book draws on primary research to present a critical overview of debates about UK university campuses as a location for radicalisation and the impact of counter-radicalisation policies. It provides a historical overview and a contemporary assessment of radicalisation in Universities and covers teaching, student and governance aspects of HE.
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Labour Party and the world, volume 2
This is the second book in a unique two-volume study tracing the evolution of the Labour Party’s foreign policy throughout the 20th century to the present date. This is the first comprehensive study of the history of the Labour Party’s worldview and foreign policy. It argues that Labour’s foreign policy perspective should be seen not as the development of a socialist foreign policy, but as an application of the ideas of liberal internationalism. Volume Two provides a critical analysis of Labour’s foreign policy since 1951. It examines Labour’s attempts to rethink foreign policy, focusing on intra-party debates, the problems that Labour faced when in power, and the conflicting pressures from party demands and external pressures. It examines attitudes to rearmament in the 1950s, the party’s response to the Suez crisis and the Vietnam War, the bitter divisions over nuclear disarmament and the radicalisation of foreign and defence policy in the 1980s. It also examines Labour’s desire to provide moral leadership to the rest of the world. The last two chapters focus on the Blair and Brown years, with Blair’s response to the Kosovo crisis, to 9/11 and his role in the ‘war on terror’. Whereas Blair’s approach to foreign affairs was to place emphasis on the efficacy of the use of military force, Brown’s approach instead placed faith in the use of economic measures. This highly readable book provides an excellent analysis of Labour’s foreign policy. It is essential reading for students of British politics, the Labour Party, and foreign policy.
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Who are the British Jihadists?
Drawn from a wider-ranging piece of research into radicalisation processes, this research note presents findings about the backgrounds of British jihadists travelling to fight in Syria. The research identifies biographical factors that are salient to two theories of radicalisation–Social Movement Theory (SMT) and Olivier Roy’s ‘youth revolt’ theory and presents a short discussion on the validity of these theories in regard to British jihadists.
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Glorifying and encouraging terrorism: preserving the golden thread of civil liberties in Britain
Purpose - Al-Qaeda poses a major challenge to western democracies with its international networks and suicide attacks; it has been involved in some of the most horrific terrorist attacks across the world. As a result the UK, similar to many other countries, has enacted hard-line counter-terrorism legislation that has had an impact upon Muslim community relations with law enforcement agencies. This paper aims to examine the glorification offence under the Terrorism Act and its implications for free speech.Design methodology approach - The paper is designed to examine counter-terrorism legislation in Britain and in particular the offence of glorification and the impact it has had upon Muslim communities using empirical case studies and theoretical evidence.Findings - It is found that Muslim communities feel that their freedom of speech, thought and expression have been seriously curtailed as a result of the glorification offence and has led them to feel a sense of alienation and stigma which has manifested itself in the community by not trusting law enforcement agencies and counter-terrorism policies.Practical implications - In order to build trust with the Muslim community law enforcement agencies such as the police need to ensure that they do not disproportionately use their power of arrest under the guise of combating terrorism. Therefore, there is a need for law enforcement agencies to improve their internal and external structures through a process of engagement and understanding Muslim communities which would help rebuild trust and confidence.Originality value - The paper examines counter-terrorism legislation and provides a theoretical framework for how policy should be shaped in the area of counter-terrorism. Currently the literature available concerning the new government reforms and the glorification offence under the Terrorism Act is limited and thus this paper provides a unique contribution towards understanding this offence in more detail and the impact it may have upon Muslim communities and civil liberties.
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Community Action and the Building of Socialism From Below: A Defence of the Non-Directive Approach
A call is made for restructuring British government along genuine socialist lines, beginning with idea exchanges based on equality rather than leadership or domination. Radical community work is discussed as a means to establish an organic relationship with the Wc so these exchanges can occur. Nondirective community action is seen to have more to offer than the Left's traditional directive approach, with the most urgent need being to foster organized resistance against the welfare state under the Wc's leadership & control. J. Cannon.
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Sociology of education, politics and the left in Britain
The works of many current radical sociologists of education turn out to have essentially conservative implications, leading not to extension of education but to its rejection. Rejection of schooling as such prevents improvement in educational systems. Radical thinkers have refused to involve themselves with political parties, thus denying themselves any chance of influencing the political process. Rejection of calls for 'creation of a socialist future' is needed to begin serious construction of socialist alternatives; & the extension of literacy & numeracy, at least, to everyone capable of them, is necessary to such alternatives. Politics & education should be related through political education in the schools, & through political concern with inequalities. 1 Figure. W. H. Stoddard.
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