Contemporary terrorism trends have reached new levels of unpredictability, making terrorism and radicalisation harder to address. This is due to two main factors that have emerged only recently. The first is the bipolarity of the terrorist threat, where, on the one hand, major international crises like the war in Ukraine are amplifying the magnitude and importance of radical groups; And on the other hand, European countries are witnessing a rise of lone-actor attacks on their territory. The second factor is the ideological fluidity that has pervaded radicalisation trends. Individuals seize ideological narratives and communication strategies from several ideologies. This increases the resonance of the threat while making it more difficult to identify. We must better understand these two dynamics to offer concrete solutions to contemporary terrorism.

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