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Dealing with the Challenge: Responses to Foreign Fighters and Foreign Fighter Returnees

2019
Many Western governments have grappled with the issue of foreign fighters. Some countries have introduced measures to tackle the outflow of volunteers. Others have devised additional interventions to deal with returning foreign fighters. The chapter examines the different approaches prevailing in the West.
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Foreign fighters and terrorism

2018
The emergence in the twenty-first century of a growing body of research into the recruitment and behaviour of foreign fighters is due to the contemporary prominence of the transnational jihad movement. This chapter assesses the relationship between foreign fighters and terrorism, and supports the existing claims that foreign fighters are a type of ...
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Handling Foreign Fighters

2019
Abstract There are several major benefits foreign fighters, and only foreign fighters, can offer armed groups. They have knowledge and experience that the local population does not have and have connections in the international war industry. Usually they are more dedicated to their goals.
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Returning Jihadist Foreign Fighters

Security and Human Rights, 2014
Since the first reports detailing the presence of foreigner participating in the Syrian civil war in September 2011, the number of foreign fighters has increased exponentially. Especially European policymakers are worried about the potential threat posed by the presence of hundreds of European foreign fighters in Syria and the possibility that some of ...
Edwin Bakker, Christoph Paulussen, Eva Entenmann   +2 more
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The Challenge of Foreign Fighter Returnees

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 2017
This article explores the security challenges posed by foreign fighter returnees. It argues that—contrary to popular belief—most foreign fighters do not die on battlefields or travel from conflict to conflict. They return home. This means that law enforcement, intelligence, and other security officials should expect unprecedented numbers of returnees ...
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Sovereignty and the Foreign Fighter Problem

Orbis, 2010
Abstract Sovereignty is the bedrock of international law. If security requires that the United States transgress sovereign borders to attack foreign fighters and their support networks hiding in third countries, then the U.S. should adopt a strategy to amend international law accordingly.
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Switzerland and Jihadist Foreign Fighters

2016
CSS Analyses in Security Policy ...
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Foreign Fighters and International Peace

2022
This book sheds light on the emergence, roots and gradual change of jihadism and exposes its detrimental impact on human lives. The author collected insightful interviews with ISIS fighters and also with women who joined ISIS. The book analyzes root causes and motivations of people based on the firsthand information and proposes the non-enigma cycles ...
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Prosecution of Foreign Fighter Returnees

2019
Most Western governments have relied on the prosecution of foreign fighter returnees as a way of punishing those who went to Syria and Iraq to fight for ISIS and other extremist groups. Hundreds of foreign fighter returnees have been prosecuted and imprisoned in their home countries.
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The ontological threat of foreign fighters

European Journal of International Relations, 2021
Raphaël Leduc
exaly