7 Ethnonationalism and Religious Radicalization: Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Journal: Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks
Year: 2025

Although the framework of the Preventing Violent Extremism in the Balkans and the MENA (PREVEX) project distinguishes between ethnonationalist (far right) and religiously motivated violent extremism, these extremist motivations are not entirely distinct in the Western Balkans-both because the far right ethnonationalism that led to war in the 1990s nurtured an enabling environment for imported religious extremism to emerge in the postwar period and because ethnonationalist extremism is tightly in