Editor's Introduction

In this special issue of JSR, we welcome you to an exploration of vanguardism, guest edited by Dr. Richard T. Marcy, professor of organizational behavior in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, where his research focuses on nonviolent, avant-garde groups on the Left and the Right, including political, cultural, and psychological perspectives. With special emphasis on leadership, Dr. Marcy's academic work includes publications on topics such as the leadership of sociopolitical vanguards and the role of leader cognition in radical social innovations. We are very pleased to present this special issue, edited by Dr. Marcy, a book-length collection of thematically interlinked articles on vanguardism in radicalism.JSR seeks to provide a forum for the scholarly and dispassionate analysis of radicalism of many kinds, and from many different perspectives. We continue to welcome a steady stream of excellent articles, and remain the only journal in the world that focuses on the full range of political, social, and religious forms of radicalism. We welcome your queries, submissions, and shared conversation about these various currents of radical political and religious movements and individuals, as well as on other topics that advance our understanding of radicalism, broadly understood.Thank you for supporting our journal, and we hope you enjoy this special issue.