Jihad as a Potential Security Threat in the Western Balkans Region
Jihad as a Potential Security Threat in the Western Balkans Region

Summary/Abstract: Modern terrorism is very often associated with radical Islamist ideology which in the name of Islam uses the methods of jihad, or i.e.holy war. The Western Balkans is an area where such security risks are today perhaps the most present, because this part of Europe, due to the turbulent history of war and always dynamic relations among the Balkan nations, is widely seen as a “powder keg” or the “area of winds of history”. As a result of historical, geopolitical, geostrategic, ethnic and numerous other factors in the Western Balkan today one can find many bases Jihad, which are used for training and preparation of Islamist terrorists for everywhere in the world, but also pose a real threat to the security of the Western countries whose capacity to respond to that kind of threat, after the turbulent and war-torn nineties of the 20th century, is objectively insufficient.

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