Ecosystems of Opposition: How Exclusion Leads to Islamist Moderation

• In Event: Religion and Politics in the Middle East

Brief Overview

Can exclusion lead to Islamist moderation? Popular inclusion-moderation theories are obsolete given the return of authoritarian exclusion after the Arab Spring. While exclusion is often linked to radicalization, I show how it leads to moderation.

Author

• Nasir Almasri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology