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Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century

Dangers of the group mentality

Marc Sageman
University of Pennsylvania Press, 200pp, £16.50,
Alan Judd
Wednesday, 23rd January 2008

Alan Judd on Marc Sageman's latest book 

Marc Sageman is deservedly one of the best-known academics working on terrorism. A clinical psychologist and former CIA officer, in 2004 he published Understanding Terror Networks, a book which enlarged the way the subject was seen. Hitherto, most researchers and governments had located the ‘root causes’ of terrorism either in religion (Islam) or in social and economic conditions. A third approach, the biographical, offered fascinating case-histories of terrorists thought to be mad or incomprehensibly evil and who generally turned out to be rather more commonplace.

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