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The EU Counterradicalization Strategy
Evaluating EU policies concerning
causes of radicalization
May 2008
Workpackage 4, objective 6
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 3
2. RESEARCH FRAMEWORK ....................................................................... 4
3. CAUSAL FACTORS OF RADICALIZATION.................................................. 5
4. THE EU COUNTER RADICALIZATION AND RECRUITMENT STRATEGY........... 8
5. COMPARING AND CONTRASTING CAUSAL FACTORS AND EU POLICIES..... 10
6. RADICALIZATION AND EU POLICIES..................................................... 11
6.1. The EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy ..................................................... 11
6.2 The European Union Strategy for Countering Radicalization and Recruitment
to Terrorism ................................................................................... 13
7. ASSESSING EU COUNTERRADICALIZATION POLICIES............................. 14
7.1 Classification model......................................................................... 15
7.2 Overlapping elements ...................................................................... 16
7.2.1. Political causes ......................................................................... 16
7.2.2. Cultural causes......................................................................... 17
7.2.3. Network Dynamics .................................................................... 17
7.2.4. Recruitment as a catalyst........................................................... 18
7.3 Some -overlapping elements ............................................................ 19
7.3.1. Economic causes....................................................................... 19
7.3.2. Social identification ................................................................... 19
7.3.3. Relative deprivation .....................................