TERRORISM: HISTORICAL EVOLUTION AND THE PROCESS OF ISLAMIC RADICALIZATION
TERRORISM: HISTORICAL EVOLUTION AND THE PROCESS OF ISLAMIC RADICALIZATION

Summary/Abstract: TERRORISM IS AN ONGOING PROCESS WITH MULTIPLE IMPLICATIONS IN AN INCREASINGLY INTERDEPENDENT AND INTERCONNECTED WORLD. THIS PAPER AIMS TO ANALYZE AND PRESENT TWO OF THE PROCESSES UNDERLYING THE CONTEMPORARY TERRORISM, NAMELY: THE EVOLUTION OF TERRORISM FROM A HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW WITH THE EXEMPLIFICATION OF ITS FORMS OF MANIFESTATION AND THE ISLAMIC RADICALIZATION. THE ACADEMIC RESEARCH EMPHASIZES THE MAIN IMPLICATIONS AND PARTICULARITIES OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS OF TERRORISM FROM THE BEGINNING, IN ANTIQUITY WHERE WE ENCOUNTER THE FIRST-BORN TERRORIST GROUPS, THE ASSASSINS SICARIO AND NIZARI, TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION FROM 1789 AND THE CREATION OF STATE TERRORISM, TO ETHNIC SEPARATIST TERRORISM AND MODERN TERRORISM FROM OUR DAYS. THOSE PHASES INDICATES AN EVOLUTIVE PHENOMENON WHICH IT’S FAR FROM OVER, IF WE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE ISLAMIC RADICALIZATION PROCESS THAT ACHIEVED AN INCREASINGLY PRONOUNCED CHARACTER DUE TO THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE AND THE EMERGENCE OF HOMEGROWN TERRORISM. IT’S EUROPE THREATENED BY TERRORISTS WITHIN ITS BORDERS? A PART OF THOSE WHO ARE BORN AS DESCENDANTS OF MUSLIMS AND RAISED IN THE EUROPEAN CULTURE ARE PRONE TO ISLAMIST RADICALIZATION AND VIOLENT ACTIONS, AS THEY FAIL TO ADAPT TO THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORDER FROM THEIR HOST COUNTRIES. WILL THE EUROPEAN STATES BE ABLE TO CREATE COPING MECHANISM AGAINST ISLAMIST RADICALIZATION?

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