Responding to Radicalization: Exporting the Dilemmas: The Danish Anti-Radicalization Model and Countering Violent Extremism Abroad

This article examines the background to the development of ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ (CVE) and shows how it has gained traction in the con- text of Danish security governance. The complex entanglement of domestic and global threat perceptions with value-based politics are used to justify giving increased powers to the relevant security and intelligence bodies. The complexities defining contemporary security threats are rescaled to the level of the individual or so-called ‘in risk societies’. This may appear promising in addressing extremism domestically as well as abroad. However, there are important dilemmas and possibly unintended consequences that deserve at- tention. They become particularly evident in the context of recent exports of Danish CVE. This is demonstrated through an analysis of Denmark’s export of its model to the conflict-torn Horn of Africa.