Manni Crone

• Phd.
• Senior Researcher at Danish Institute for International Studies

For more than a decade, ‘radicalization’ has been a keyword in our understanding of terrorism. From the outset, radicalization was conceived of as an intellectual process through which an individual would increasingly come under a spell of extremist ideas. This ideological understanding of radicalization still prevails. In a 2015 speech on extremis...

Islamic State videos have often been associated with savage violence and beheadings. An in-depth scrutiny however reveals another striking feature: that female bodies are absent, blurred or mute. Examining a few Islamic State videos in depth, the article suggests that the invisibility of women in tandem with the ostentatious visibility of male bodi...

Far-right parties and pundits are often portrayed as parochial nationalists obsessed with the idea of national sovereignty. Opposed to a liberal world order, they prefer a rogue world of nation-states on the loose. This essay seeks to complicate that narrative. It suggests that alongside political parties with a nationalist agenda, an increasing nu...

With the Brexit saga still unfolding, Anglo nostalgia is a timely book. Although ‘it is not a book about Brexit’, it is nevertheless about the nostalgia that infused it. Nostalgic reveries and memory politics are gaining ground in world politics, and such ‘rosy retrospection’ is not confined to Britain, but is part of a much broader global ‘epidemi...

Manni Crone skriver om de islamistiske grupper, som er blevet styrket pga. måneders forberedelse på udenlandsk intervention.

The London bombings in 2005 led to the perception that the terrorist threat had changed from external to internal. This became conceptualized shortly after as “homegrown terrorism.” This article deals with the meaning and scope of this phenomenon. We begin by tracing an ambiguity in the term “homegrown,” which is both about belonging in the West an...

This article reviews the Aarhus approach to the study of Islamism as presented in a series of articles by Mehdi Mozaffari and Tina Magaard. The core contribution of the Aarhus approach—the argument that islamism constitutes yet another form of totalitarianism—is found to be forceful and thought-provoking. The academic utility of this approach is di...

Manni Crone: Authenticity and critical linguistic community of Charles Taylor Are we living in individualistic societies where authenticity and self-realization have become supreme values? Is it all we can dream about to realize ourselves? In this article I examine the modern roots of authenticity and argue with the Canadian communitarian Charles T...

European societies are becoming still more “postsecular” and we therefore need to gain a much more subtle understanding of what secularism is. This also implies understanding non-European apprehensions of this concept, and in many Muslim countries secularism is a burning issue. Can Islam be secularized? In what way should religion, law and politics...

Ph.d.-afhandling.