Taneski, Nenad and Odjakov, Ferdinand (2018) Militant Islamism, domestic terrorism and Macedonian national security. Violent extremism and radicalization processes as driving factors to terrorism threath. pp. 137-154.
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Abstract
The armed conflicts that began the process of disintegration of the Balkan peoples at the end of the 20th century have resulted in the existence of a distinct ethnic and religious divide that is maximally exploited by global militant Islamic organizations. The large number of militant Islamists from the Balkan countries struggling on the side of the paramilitary formations of the Islamic state in Syria and Iraq merely confirm the fact that the Balkan Peninsula is a region where active extremist structures are in line with the ideology of militant Islamism. As a result, militant Islamists have set up a solid base for extending this ideology between the Muslims and the rest of the population. With regard to Macedonia, although some analysts claim that militant Islamists are present in Macedonia, the overall assessment is that Macedonia is not the main goal of this movement. However, certain criminal activities with a terrorist signature, both from the expert and scientific public, have been rated as acts motivated by a militant Islamist ideology, and that this is a new kind of terrorist threat which has not been imported from outside, but made at home. In this paper, through a scientific approach, we will identify the threat to Macedonia's national security from a new generation of militants inspired by global jihad ideology.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | militant Islamism, terrorism, ideology, national security, threat |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Other social sciences Social Sciences > Political Science |
| Divisions: | Military Academy |
| Depositing User: | Nenad Taneski |
| Date Deposited: | 21 May 2019 10:18 |
| Last Modified: | 21 May 2019 10:18 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/22005 |
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