At Contentions, Noah Pollak notes the following video of Martin Kramer speaking at The 10th Annual Herziliyah Conference: The Balance of Israel's Security. In this 6 minute video, Kramer briefly outlines the prevalent opinions on the cause of radicalism in the Middle East. He then gives a different interpretation on the cause of radicalism and how to combat it.
The conference is over, but you can still listen to the speakers online.
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This is one aspect but you can't discount the role of ideology, there are many other societies with large youth populations & they are NOT involved in terrorism.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is primarily ideology, not economics or demography.