Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education (First paperback edition.)

Searching for an explanation, 'Engineers of Jihad' tackles four general questions about extremism - under which socioeconomic conditions do people join extremist groups?

Does the profile of extremists reflect how they self-select into extremism or how groups recruit them?

Does ideology matter in sorting who joins which group?

Lastly, is there a mindset susceptible to certain types of extremism?

Using rigorous methods and several new datasets, this book explains the link between educational discipline and type of radicalism by looking at two key factors: the social mobility (or lack thereof) for engineers in the Muslim world, and a particular mindset seeking order and hierarchy that is found more frequently among engineers.