Neoliberalism and neo-jihadism

<p>This ground-breaking book examines the political-economic characteristics of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century 'neo-jihadism'. Drawing on Bourdieusian and neo-Marxist ideas it investigates how the neo-jihadist organisations Al Qaeda and Islamic State engage with the capitalist paradigm of neoliberalism in their anti-capitalist propaganda and quasi-capitalist financial practices.<br><br>Richards reveals interactions between neoliberalism and neo-jihadism characterised by surface-level contradiction and structural connections that are both dialectical and mutually reinforcing. Neoliberalism here constitutes an underlying 'status quo' while neo-jihadism as an evolving form of political organisation is perpetuated as part of this situation.<br><br>Representing unique and exclusive examples of the (r)evolutionary phenomenon of neo-jihadism Al Qaeda and Islamic State have reconstituted the dominant political-economic paradigm of neoliberalism they mobilised in response to.</p>