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Der klare Sieg von Slobodan Milosevic über seinen Herausforderer Milan Panic bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen in Serbien am 20. Dezember 1992 hat viele politische Beobachter im Westen überrascht und deren Hoffnungen auf eine moderatere Entwicklung in Serbien und damit verbunden im Jugoslawienkonflikt enttäuscht. Die Wahlergebnisse der Parlaments- und Präsidentschaftswahlen deuten auf eine wachsende Polarisierung der politischen Landschaft und einen politischen Rechtsruck der serbischen Bevölkerung hin. Milosevic und dem Vorsitzenden der Serbischen Radikalen Partei, Vojislav Seselj, gelang es, den Wählern zu suggerieren, daß sie die nationalen Interessen am konsequentesten schützen würden. In Belgrad wächst die Zahl der politischen Beobachter, die eine Tendenz zur Errichtung einer Einparteienherrschaft konstatieren. (BIOst-Srt)

ISIS and other international terrorist organizations rely on the Internet to disseminate their extremist rhetoric and to recruit people to their cause, particularly through popular online social media applications. Any meaningful counterterrorism strategy must, therefore, account for the ways in which terrorist organizations use the Internet to prey on young, manipulable minds who are drawn to radical ideas and propaganda and to the desire to serve a cause larger than themselves. This article outlines the ways in which extremist organizations use the Internet to ensnare new recruits, analyzes the implications of cyber-recruitment on existing counterterrorism techniques, and suggests ways in which the U.S. government can work with Internet service providers and other major cyber corporations to better address this growing threat.

While recent research has focused on radicalization mainly in relation to religiously inspired terrorism, we suggest that radicalization is not intrinsically tied to political violence or group recruitment. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Italy, we analyze two case studies—one religious and one secular—of individual, nonviolent radicalization bearing on personal choices of lifestyle and ethics. We rely on 33 interviews with Catholic hermits and 22 with antispeciesists—a radical fringe of the animal rights movement—to provide an interpretive account of the lived experience of radicalization. The findings suggest that from a subjective viewpoint, radicalization is a highly demanding choice which, however, is also perceived as empowering.