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Summary of Contents

Section I: Extremism, Radicalization and Cyber

Threats as an Important Security Factors

for Countering Terrorism Processes

Re-assessing Online Jihadi Extremism: Reasoning for a
Marketing Approach to Counter-Radicalization

Paul Lieber

While there is increased recognition of the potency of online communication for the prolifera-
tion of jihadi violent extremism across Europe, existing approaches are falling woefully short.
Specifically, these approaches are wedded to particular paradigms and assessments that inher-
ently favour data organization over audience understanding. As a result, the vast majority
of resources expended towards addressing European jihadi violent extremism see increased
spending, but little impact. This chapter details the strengths and weaknesses of current ap-
proaches, while offering three alternatives to reasoning about this problem, nested in market-
ing research.

Extremism and Radicalization in the European
Environment – Security Challenges of Return Foreign
Fighters

Denis Čaleta, Sara Perković

This analysis will consider whether foreign fighters pose a real danger to European security,
knowing that the potential threat is always possible. The threat posed by returning foreign
fighters should not be underestimated. Terrorist attacks carried out by returning foreign fight-
ers in different European countries are proof of that. We have researched the attacks that
have been carried out by returning foreign fighters, and in this chapter we try to analyse the
challenges that European security policymakers face in order to deal with extremism and
the radicalism processes connected to returning foreign fighters. We consider how Germany,

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