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A conceptual illustration showing a lone figure in a green shirt walking along a crumbling stone path that disintegrates into scattered fragments and fiery orange chaos on the right. The left depicts a serene green landscape with a setting sun, rolling hills, and trees, symbolizing the fragmentation of ideological frameworks and the collapse of defined structures into disordered violent extremism.

The end of ideological violence

$A conceptual double-exposure photo showing a young adolescent's face blended with a cracked, weathered wall texture, symbolizing political alienation and disillusionment. The left half reveals the youth's serious expression while the right dissolves into fractured, peeling surfaces, visually representing distrust, powerlessness, and psychological fragmentation associated with the pathway from system-disillusionment toward political radicalism in Swedish adolescents.$

System-disillusioned youth radicalize: The role of political alienation in the formation of political radicalism

$A photo showing a fragmented, close-up human face in muted blue-gray tones, overlaid with distorted textures and streaks of vivid red. The image is heavily manipulated with cracked, glass-like fractures and double-exposure effects that obscure the eyes, evoking themes of psychological rupture, obscured identity, and violence—visually paralleling the article's discussion of ideology-free extremism fixated on aggression itself.$

Extremism without ideology

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Sebastian Kaempf

School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia

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Sebastian Kaempf is a researcher in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, where he has been based since 2006. Kaempf's work addresses the ethics and politics of contemporary warfare, including casualty aversion, civilian protection, and the conduct of western militaries in asymmetric conflicts. Additional research extends to the relationship between media, mediatized battlespaces, and military culture, as well as work in political psychology on conspiracy beliefs, social media use, and well-being.

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