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Researching Terrorism and Organized Crime in Southeast Europe

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Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building

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Post-conflict societies like Southeast Europe (SEE)1 feature most of the so-called root causes of terrorism,2 sometimes also referred to as preconditions, that set the stage for terrorism in the long run.3 Since a great part of these preconditions at the same time provide fertile grounds for organized crime, it makes sense to look at both crime phenomena in order to assess the security situation in SEE. Besides the presence of extremist ideologies of a secular and/or religious nature, historical antecedents of political violence, civil wars, dictatorship and occupation, as well as discrimination on the basis of ethnic and/or religious origin (all acknowledged ‘root causes’ of terrorism), SEE displays a lack of democracy, civil liberties and the rule of law, inheriting either weak or even failed states with illegitimate and/or corrupt governments and a history of social injustice and state repression, thereby not only providing fertile grounds for terrorism, but also enabling organized criminal activities.4

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    Hans-Jörg Albrecht (Director) & Anna-Maria Getoš (Doctoral Researcher)

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    Christopher Daase (Professor of International Organization) (Professor of International Organization)

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    Vojin Dimitrijević

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    Petrus van Duyne (Professor of Empirical Penal Science) (Professor of Empirical Penal Science)

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Albrecht, HJ., Getoš, AM. (2010). Researching Terrorism and Organized Crime in Southeast Europe. In: Benedek, W., Daase, C., Dimitrijević, V., van Duyne, P. (eds) Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281479_8

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