Steffen Hertog presents his new book, Engineers of Jihad co-authored with Diego Gambetta. In the book, the authors uncover two unexpected facts about violent extremists: they find that a disproportionate share of Islamist radicals come from an engineering background, and that Islamist and right-wing extremism have more in common than either does with left-wing extremism, in which engineers are absent while social scientists and humanities students are prominent.
Receive our posts by email
@LSEMiddleEast on Twitter
Recent Posts
- Nudges: What can Healthcare in the MENA Region learn from Behavioural Economics?
- Icons of the Nation: The Military Factor in the UAE’s Nation-Building
- The Bishop and the Prime Minister: Mediating Conflict in the Nineveh Plains
- What to expect from the Post-Pan-Arab Media
- ‘Want-Avoid’: Rentier Mentality in Perspective
- Kuwait’s Hundred Million Dollar Supply Management Opportunity