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Foreign Fighters—Recent Trends

open access: yesOrbis, 2011
Abstract Beginning with a historical perspective on foreign fighters, this article then seeks to clarify ambiguities and biases that shape how we often analyze the foreign fighter phenomenon. The central focus is then on the evolving trends and activities of the movement.
Mendelsohn, Barak
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Foreign fighters - perception of threat [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the past few years, the civil war in Syria has been a major security problem for Europe. This is the first conflict in which many European citizens have joined as fighters in terrorist organizations. For many of them publicly released videos confirming the crimes committed.
Taneski, Nenad, Kozarev, Atanas
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Introduction: The Phenomenon of Foreign Fighters and Foreign Terrorist Fighters

International Community Law Review, 2016
Modern international law defines a very narrow definition of mercenarism. It does not include all aspects of this phenomenon as it was known and understood for centuries. At the same time the emergence of new forms of mercenary-related activities is observed.
Elżbieta Karska, Karol Karski
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Foreign fighters

2019
Taking the foreign fighter phenomenon as its example, this chapter critically discusses the relative exclusion of the role of violence in scholarly approaches to modern subjectivity formation. It suggests research strategies, which include violence in our understanding of the rise of the modern subject. The formation of modern subjectivities is related
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The Rebel Foreign Fighter Dataset

Journal of Peace Research, 2023
Abstract This article introduces the Rebel Foreign Fighter Dataset (RFFD) which can be used to expand research on civil war and foreign fighters (FFs). First, it largely expands the previously reported data on the number of FFs that have and continue to be involved in conflicts across the globe. Second, this database disaggregates FFs
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The ontological threat of foreign fighters

European Journal of International Relations, 2020
The threat represented by foreign fighters to their home state has rarely materialised, yet states have increasingly legislated against foreign fighters over the course of the last 300 years. This observation points to the act of legislating as fulfilling some function other than the protection of the state against a physical threat presented by ...
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Foreign Fighters: Motivations for Travel to Foreign Conflicts

2016
The phenomenon of foreign fighters predates ISIS. Islamist extremist, far left, far right, and ethno nationalist groups have recruited individuals to fight for their cause overseas. This chapter aims to use empirical evidence to add to the currently understudied body of literature regarding what drives an individual to fight in a foreign conflict ...
Ross Frenett, Tanya Silverman
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