Diana Mishkova
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions-supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia," "Eastern Europe," and "the Balkans." Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realities rather than a series of shifting, overlapping, and historically constructed concepts. This volume is the first to provide a synthetic account of these concepts and the...
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Precarious living conditions across the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa create fertile ground for radical ideas. Yet, despite genuine grievances and legitimate grounds for anger, most people living in these regions are not radicalized and do not embrace ideas that lead to acts of violent extremism. Which raises the question . why? To answer this question, the authors of Resisting Radicalization investigate the nonoccurrence of violent...