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Roots and Trajectories of Violent Extremism and Terrorism A Cooperative Program of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences (1995-2020) (2022) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix G: Far-Right Domestic Extremism (James Halverson)
Pages 135-138

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... and Russian counterterrorism alignment that transnational religious terrorism once did; but it does raise many questions about processes of radicalization, around which continued scholarly exchange can be oriented. Violence perpetrated in service of extreme nativist and ethnonationalist ideologies has represented the dominant form of terrorist violence in the United States for the last decade.
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From page 136...
... Exchange on this topic might also serve interstate stability, given the dangerous capacity for online mechanisms of domestic radicalization to be harnessed as tools of interstate competition. From the American perspective -- having witnessed political polarization occur with incredible scale and speed in recent years -- the current radicalization problem requires new examinations of human behavior and information technologies; but most critically, it demands better understanding of the ways these two aspects interact on a societal scale.
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... In the United States, understanding the darker aspects of the gestalt entity of internet and society is urgent because demystifying the radicalization process is an important part of creating "off-ramps" for the radicalized. Even in places where these problems are less urgent, however, most of the same ingredients for runaway cycles of polarization exist and are at least beginning to stoke entrenchment of identity politics or otherwise amplify social cleavages.
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