{"product_id":"jihadism-in-europe-from-the-1990s-to-the-present-day-hardback-9781509566112","title":"Jihadism in Europe; From the 1990s to the Present Day (Hardback) 9781509566112","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJihadism in Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom the 1990s to the Present Day\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHugo Micheron (Author), Cory Stockwell (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509566112, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.3 x 2.8 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A well researched history of European jihadism that connects many dots and elucidates important patterns in a complex terrain.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Hegghammer, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eJihadism in Europe\u003c\/i\u003e provides a detailed analysis of how jihadism, represented by both Al Qaeda and ISIS, has evolved in Europe since the 1990s. The work is based on thorough investigative research and clearly explains the ripple effects caused by jihadist propaganda and terrorist attacks. Micheron offers a sharp critique of how Western governments and the mainstream media have failed to assess accurately how jihadists exploited press freedom and civil liberties to build their bases in the West. He argues that Jihadism is not just about attacks; it has long-lasting political effects, including polarizing public debates about Islam and the role of Muslims in society. Jihadism has adapted and has proven capable of taking advantage of political and social divisions in Europe, opportunistically aligning with both far-right and far-left narratives about the failures of democracy. It is not over yet, he says. Although ISIS has lost territorial control, its ideology still exists in prisons, online, and among returnees from Syria.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJytte Klausen, Brandeis University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A meticulous record of the successive waves of jihad in Europe over the past three decades as the tides of terrorist activity have ebbed and flowed…[T]his book shows clearly that it is not the outbreaks of violent jihadism which should monopolise our attention, but the steady process of recruitment and indoctrination which is being carried on continuously, beneath the radar, in mosques and Islamic centres, in prisons, and in private homes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Conservative Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Hugo Micheron retraces the history of European jihadism from the war in Afghanistan in the 1990s to the present day. Over a period of some thirty years, jihadist ideas spread to the main cities of Europe, where they were disseminated by thousands of Islamic activists. These ideas were also embedded in online media which connect Islamic communities across the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMicheron argues that the development of Jihadism has not been linear, but has followed a wave-like pattern of ebbs and flows. At high tide, the movement is visible and its sympathizers give priority to armed jihad. They seek to mediatize their operations in order to galvanize sympathizers, draw in new recruits and intimidate adversaries. These periods of high tide are the times when they most often employ terrorism. At low tide, jihadism seems to have been defeated. Organizations are dismantled and they no longer have the operational capacity to conduct large-scale attacks. To the external observer, armed jihad seems to have disappeared, and its threat is correspondingly weakened. But jihadism has not disappeared: it has merely mutated. Armed struggle has been replaced by ideological struggle. This wave-like movement of jihadism is poorly understood in the West. Observers tend to measure the threat only in terms of overt terrorist attacks and they ignore the mutations that occur during the periods of low tide, and hence they fail to appreciate the reconfigurations of jihadism that take place over the long term.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on archival research as well as numerous interviews, Micheron provides the first full history of European jihadism. He shows that jihadism has ebbed and flowed in Europe with astonishing regularity, at a rate of one complete cycle per decade. It originated in the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, put down roots in Europe in the 1990s, spread throughout the continent after September 11, 2001, and expanded to new horizons with the emergence of Islamic State in Iraq and then Syria, where it changed scale. In the post-IS period, it underwent new phases of mutation, in prisons and within European societies, which makes it all the more urgent to understand this broad movement today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnrivaled in the breadth and depth of its coverage, this book will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the threats faced by Western democracies today, as well as students and scholars of political science, IR, terrorism and extremism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction \u003cp\u003eNote on Terminology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI THE VETERANS—THE 1990s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Afghanistan: Return to the Source\u003cbr\u003eFifty Shades of Red: The USSR and the Afghan Quagmire\u003cbr\u003eThe Arrears of Afghan Jihad\u003cbr\u003eFifty Shades of Green: The Intellectual Matrix of Jihadism\u003cbr\u003ePeshawar, 1992: Ground Zero\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. The Preaching Machines, from Peshawar to London\u003cbr\u003ePreaching Machines in Europe\u003cbr\u003eLondon, the European Peshawar\u003cbr\u003eThe Emirs of Londonistan\u003cbr\u003eThe Paradoxes of the Establishment of Jihad in the West\u003cbr\u003eOmar Bakri’s Project: Transforming European Islam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Bosnia and Scandinavia: The Periphery of European Jihadism \u003cbr\u003eSlags from the Bosnian Hearth\u003cbr\u003eThe Blind Sheikh and the Danish Refuge: The First World Trade Center Attacks \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Algeria and Belgium at a Crossroads\u003cbr\u003eBrussels, Molenbeek, and the Canal Municipalities\u003cbr\u003eThe Structure of Belgian Islam: Salafists, Brothers, and the Question of Grooming\u003cbr\u003eThe Arrival of the Veterans\u003cbr\u003eAlgeria’s Black Decade\u003cbr\u003eFrance and the GIA’s European Campaign (1994-1996)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. London: \"The New Peshawar of the Islamic Revival\"\u003cbr\u003eContributing to Jihad from London\u003cbr\u003eThe War of the Mosques\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. The Afghanistan Emirate and September 11\u003cbr\u003eThe Taliban, Heart of Global Jihad\u003cbr\u003eAfghanistan, Global Terrorist Factory\u003cbr\u003eThe Emirate's European Representatives \u003cbr\u003eSeptember 11 as Culmination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII THE PIONEERS—THE 2000s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The War on Terror\u003cbr\u003eNo Transition: From Afghanistan to Iraq\u003cbr\u003eShock and Awe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Europe, Caught in the Middle\u003cbr\u003eThe Saudi Response: Strengthen Salafism in Europe\u003cbr\u003eThe Decline and Resilience of Londonistan: The Subversion of Open Societies\u003cbr\u003eAwlaqi, the New Face of Western Jihad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. From Ulm to Toulouse: Passing the Baton to the Pioneers\u003cbr\u003eThe German Mode\u003cbr\u003eThe Other Battle of Ulm\u003cbr\u003eToulouse, Brussels, Cairo: The Wanderings and Emancipation of the Pioneers\u003cbr\u003ePreaching Machines Behind Bars\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. The Fuse of European Terrorism\u003cbr\u003eMadrid, March 11, 2004\u003cbr\u003eThe Dutch Error, November 2, 2004\u003cbr\u003eThe Dispersal of Londonistan\u003cbr\u003eLeeds and London, July 7, 2005\u003cbr\u003eDanish Satire, September 30, 2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. The Acceleration of Salafism in Europe\u003cbr\u003eJihadist Cells in Denmark and Sweden\u003cbr\u003eFrom Ulm to Afghanistan: The Pioneers of Sauerland\u003cbr\u003eEuropean Prisons at the Crossroads of the Global and the Local\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. The End of Jihad in Iraq and the Digital Revolution of Jihadism\u003cbr\u003eThe Growing Autonomy of the Europeans in Afghanistan\u003cbr\u003eThe Westernization of Propaganda and the Revival of the Cartoon Affair in New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII THE NATIVES \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Before ISIS: The Sharia Networks in Europe\u003cbr\u003eLondon Calling: The Establishment of Pan-European Sharia Networks\u003cbr\u003eAuthoritarianism Runs Out of Steam in the Arab World: The First Steps of an Explosion\u003cbr\u003eRising Waters: Sharia Zones in Denmark and England (2011)\u003cbr\u003eThe First Attacks in Europe and the Syrian Backdrop (2012)\u003cbr\u003ePoint of No Return (2013)\u003cbr\u003eame Combat in Dinslaken and Lunel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. ISIS, an Attempt at Jihadist Submersion\u003cbr\u003eISIS’s Warning Shot\u003cbr\u003eThe Echo of the Call to the \"aliphate\"n Europe\u003cbr\u003eWomen, the Blind Spot of Jihadism \u003cbr\u003eThe Attacks\u003cbr\u003eThe Terror Cell and the Networks of the Aleppo Hospital\u003cbr\u003eThe 2014 Campaign\u003cbr\u003eJanuary-February 2014: The Bloody Return of the Cartoons\u003cbr\u003eReturn to Copenhagen: The Endless Spiral of \"Revenge\"\u003cbr\u003eVerviers, Prelude to November 13\u003cbr\u003eFrom Raqqa to Paris via Brussels: November 13\u003cbr\u003eFrom Paris to Brussels, the Resolution: March 22\u003cbr\u003e2016-2018: The Resourcefulness of the \"aliphate\"System\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. After ISIS: The Jihadist Deline and Islamist Reconfigurations in Europe\u003cbr\u003eThe Fall of the \"Caliphate\"\u003cbr\u003eEphemeral Caliphate, Permanent Utopia\u003cbr\u003eGrowing Up in the Al-Hol Camp\u003cbr\u003eThe Prisons\u003cbr\u003eThe Materialization of the Security Threat in European Prisons\u003cbr\u003ePenal Institutions Under Pressure\u003cbr\u003eThe Neighbourhoods\u003cbr\u003eThe Two Molenbeeks\u003cbr\u003eThe Murder of Samuel Paty and French-Bashing: Symbols of the Post-ISIS Period\u003cbr\u003eThe Return of the Taliban and the Death of the Al-Qaeda Leader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. The Return of Hot Wars and the World after October 7\u003cbr\u003eThe October 7 Explosion\u003cbr\u003eThe Images and Narrative of the Global Information War\u003cbr\u003eOn the Peaks of Despair: The Relentless Violence of the War in Gaza\u003cbr\u003eA Climate of Intellectual Insurrection: The Post-October 7 World\u003cbr\u003eThe ISKP: Prelude to a Return to Jihadism?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52460666716440,"sku":"9781509566112","price":23.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509566112.jpg?v=1785457437","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/jihadism-in-europe-from-the-1990s-to-the-present-day-hardback-9781509566112","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}