WAHHABISM AND ISLAMIC GEOPOLITICS ON THE WESTERN BALKAN

Vladan  Stanković; Zoran Milosavljevic

Vladan Stanković Institute for Political Studies in Belgrade, Serbia
Zoran Milosavljevic Institute for Political Studies in Belgrade, Serbia

Keywords: Wahhabism, geopolitics, the Western Balkans, confessions, religion, international relations.

Abstract

Review paper

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37458/ssj.6.1.9

This research work deals with the influence of Wahhabism in the Western Balkans. Wahhabism as a movement, and geopolitical facts, it becomes an instrument of action of certain regional and geopolitical factors, and as such is a very important subject of research. In terms of space-time, is engaged in research work in the last ten years in the Western Balkans. The significance of this research is: learning about the phenomenon of Wahhabism (his teachings, features and expressions) in an attempt to integrate it into the wider social and religious framework, to monitoring its impact on the Western Balkans and in its geo-political contextualization in regional and global scale. The purpose of this research is in recognition of this complex religious phenomenon, enabling the integration of religious groups in the civil societies of the Western Balkans, and contextualize the current geopolitical situation, which is of importance for international relations. Methods of whom are in work activities include: semantic method, a generalization method, the method of observation, interviews, historical and comparative method’s.

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