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What is Radicalism

Regulating Human Rights, Social Security, and Socio-Economic Structures in a Global Perspective
The position of a person or group (party), which consists in the desire to radically and uncompromisingly change the existing social, political, and cultural state of affairs.
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Social Radicalization in Modern Russia and Its Impact on Human Security
Emilia Alaverdov (Georgian Technical University, Georgia), Goran Ilik (“St. Kliment Ohridski” University in Bitola, North Macedonia), and Mariam Ugulava (Georgian Technical University, Georgia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4620-1.ch001
Abstract
In the post-Soviet period, the North Caucasus region of modern Russia has become one of the most complex ethno-political regions of the country. The consequences of the ill-conceived cutting of territories and the delimitation of borders between the republics in the early years of Soviet power, the historical memory of the Caucasian War, deportations, exiles, repression, crisis circumstances, mass unemployment, and other socio-economic problems as a result of the severe crisis caused by the collapse of the USSR and liberal economic reforms, which in one way or another affected all neighboring republics, inter-ethnic and intra-confessional conflicts, and the struggle of ethno-clan groups for power, determines the realities of modern life of the population of the North Caucasian region at all levels, from political to domestic, affecting the social, state, and boarder security.
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American Fundamentalism in the New Media: Transmedia Narratives of Baptists, Evangelists, and Methodists
It refers to an extreme loyalty of an idea. Political and religious use is widespread (religious radicalism, political radicalism). It is alleged that it is not used together with nationalism.
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