Balkan Regional Development : Moderate or Radical Islam for the
Balkans

J 2019

Balkan Regional Development : Moderate or Radical Islam for the Balkans

STOJAROVÁ, Věra and Richard STOJAR

Basic information

Original name

Balkan Regional Development : Moderate or Radical Islam for the Balkans

Authors

STOJAROVÁ, Věra (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Richard STOJAR (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Abingdon, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019, 1944-8953

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50601 Political science

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

článek

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.776

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/19:00108858

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506284

UT WoS

000477088100002

Keywords in English

Moderate Islam; Radical Islam; Balkan; Foreign Fighters

Abstract

V originále

This article focuses on the evolution and manifestation of radical Islam in the Balkans and the public policy responses to the issue. It traces the origins and causes that lie behind radical Islam in the region, addresses the issue of foreign fighters involved and examines the measures that have been taken by governments in the region to combat it. The article argues that changes in public policies and in public discourse (via mass media, political narrative and narrative of Islamic communities), accompanied with the first ISIS losses and the depletion of the first wave of enthusiastic recruits and the first disillusioned returnees, were behind the unprecedented drop in the number of newly recruited foreign fighters. The article asserts, contrary to what is usually maintained in the literature, that the mass media remain the decisive channel for spreading messages and changing the public discourse, even in the era of Web 2.0 and in a region with highly favourable opportunity structures for recruitment.

Links

MUNI/A/1159/2016, interní kód MU

Name: Aktuální problémy politologického výzkumu III.

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

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Citovat

STOJAROVÁ, Věra and Richard STOJAR. Balkan Regional Development : Moderate or Radical Islam for the Balkans. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. Abingdon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019, vol. 21, No 4, p. 387-402. ISSN 1944-8953. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506284.

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STOJAROVÁ, Věra and Richard STOJAR. Balkan Regional Development : Moderate or Radical Islam for the Balkans. \textit{Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies}. Abingdon: Routledge, Taylor \&{} Francis Group, 2019, vol.~21, No~4, p.~387-402. ISSN~1944-8953. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506284.

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