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North American Foreign Fighters

Journal for Deradicalization, 2014
While the phenomenon of so-called “foreign fighters” is in no way new the past thirty-plus years has shown a marked increase in the numbers of individuals traveling abroad to fight in civil conflicts in the Muslim world. The crisis in Syria (2011-present)
Michael Noonan, Phly Khalil
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Foreign Fighter Returns and Organized Crime in Southeast Europe Post-Ukraine Conflict

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development
This study asserts that the repatriation of foreign fighters from the conflict in Ukraine poses a significant threat to the peace and stability of the Southeast Europe within the realm of organized crime.
Fabian Zhilla
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Who are the Danish Foreign Fighters? [PDF]

, 2015
The purpose of this thesis is threefold: first, to establish Foreign Fighters as an actor category distinct from insurgents and terrorists; second, to present new empirical material about Danish Muslim Foreign Fighters; and third, to propose propositions
Daoudi, Naama, Bahta, Israe, Daoudi, M'Barka   +2 more
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Hybrid Warriors and the Formation of New War Masculinities: A Case Study of Indonesian Foreign Fighters

Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2018
At the heart of new wars are economic structures, patterns of violence and formations of collective meaning, which appear to blend localised and globalised practices of gender. While new wars appear to mirror the kind of warrior masculinity that preceded
David Duriesmith
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Anti-ISIS Foreign Fighters in Syria: A Conceptual Review

, 2022
Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan orang-orang sipil yang datang ke Suriah dalam melawan ISIS yang dapat dianggap sebagai foreign fighters. Konsep yang digunakan adalah pengertian dan karakteristik foreign fighters yang dikemukakan oleh beberapa
Yulianti, Dina, Hakiki, Falhan, Sudirman, Arfin   +2 more
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Framing National Education in Hong Kong: A frame analysis of power dynamics in stakeholders' competing narratives

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how national education in Hong Kong functions as a contested arena in which state and non‐state actors struggle over the meaning of citizenship, identity and schooling. Using inductive frame analysis of 319 news articles (2020–2025) from five Chinese‐ and English‐language outlets, it identifies diagnostic, prognostic and ...
Jason Cong Lin
wiley   +1 more source

Guest warriors: The phenomenon of post-soviet fighters in the Syrian conflict

Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2020
A puzzling aspect of the Syrian war has been the seemingly endless infusion of foreign fighters who have fueled and sustained the conflict. Unique among these are the militants from former Soviet regions such as Northern Caucasus in Russia and republics ...
Azamat Sakiev
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
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Volunteer Foreign Fighters in the Ukrainian Conflict and Considerations for Forensic Psychiatry: Toward an Interdisciplinary Dialogue. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry, 2022
Smith A, Buadze A, Dube AR, Schleifer R, Liebrenz M.   +4 more
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Will the foreign fighters issue ever end? Egmont Commentary, 20 April 2015

, 2015
Rik Coolsaet questions the supposed socio-economic root causes of the phenomenon of foreign ...
Coolsaet, Rik
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