The Coming Balkan Caliphate: The Threat of Radical Islam to Europe and the West - Rilegato

Deliso, Christopher

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ISBN 10: 0275995259 ISBN 13: 9780275995256

Casa editrice: Praeger Pub Text, 2007

Riassunto

The Balkans--the gateway between East and West--are also Europe's soft underbelly, a rough neighborhood where organized crime and terrorism present a constant threat. This eye-opening book details how 15 years of misguided Western interventions, political scheming, and local mafia appeasement, compounded by a massive infusion of Arab cash, fundamentalist Islamic preaching and mosque-building have allowed radical Islamic groups to fill in the cracks between internal ethnic and religious schisms and take root in key areas of the Balkans.

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L'autore:

CHRISTOPHER DELISO, an American journalist and travel writer based in the Balkans, has been investigating radical Islamic trends in the region for the past six years, in the process discovering emerging threats and groups that had been obscurely or completely unknown to the outside world. Deliso, who holds a master's degree in Byzantine Studies from Oxford University, is director of Balkanalysis.com, a leading independent Balkan news web site. He also serves as field analyst for the Economics Intelligence Unit, London, on Macedonian politics. His freelance articles on Balkan politics, economics, and security issues have been published widely in the mainstream and alternative media in America and abroad.

Product Description:

With all eyes currently focused on the widening conflict in the Middle East and the terrorist threat coming from the region, the West is in danger of overlooking a potent new battleground in the greater ''War on Terror'' - the Balkans. This historically volatile region saw some of Europe''s worst violence of the late 20th century in the Yugoslav Wars of Secession. During these conflicts, stunningly short-sighted and politically motivated policies of the United States and its allies directly allowed Islamic mujahedin and terrorist-related entities to establish a foothold in the region - just as with the progenitors of the Taliban a decade earlier in Afghanistan. In this work, the author argues that regional demographic and cultural trends, coinciding with an increasingly hostile attitude in the larger Muslim world over Western military actions, indicate that the lawless Balkans will become increasingly valuable as a strategic base for Islamic radicals over the next two decades. Utilising the post-al- Qaeda tactics of a decentralised jihad carried out through small, independent cells ("leaderless resistance"), while seeking to fundamentally and violently remould Muslim societies, such Balkan-based extremists pose a unique and tangible threat to Western security.

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• Editore: Praeger Pub Text
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0275995259
• ISBN 13: 9780275995256
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 213