The main purpose of the work is a reflection of social and political phenomena of our time – terrorism recruitment. The author offers his own definition of the object, supplementing the categorical apparatus of political science, analyzes recruitment mechanism on the example of different (on ethnic and religious grounds, a period of existence) extremist structures, as well as summarizes the principles by which the implementation of the recruitment takes place. It is emphasized that the effectiveness of the recruitment process is provided on one side at the expense of sustainable, science-based methods, and on the other – by the target audience-building, forming the “risk zone”, which, in author’s opinion, needs to be expanded and analyzed.

terrorist recruitment, terrorism, extremism, radicalism, Pan-Islamism, radical Islam, religious sects, methods of recruitment, ISIS, “Islamic State”, “Aum Shinrikyo”, the LTTE

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