ABSTRACT
The radicalisation phenomenon has always lain at the heart of the broad and multidisciplinary study of violent militancy. This chapter develops a generic multidisciplinary model of radicalisation within which the potential role of the charismatic leader as a facilitator and driver of the charismatic collective’s radicalisation is examined. The radicalisation paradigm developed here not only builds on the preceding theory of identity, especially the process of uni-polarisation, but also pre-existing radicalisation scholarship. To achieve the latter, this chapter begins with a brief literature review.
