In Limited Demand: The Other Foreign Volunteers in the Syrian Civil War

The wars in Syria and Iraq attracted about 45,000 individuals from outside the arenas. Most joined the Islamic State, but interestingly, other prominent armed groups showed less interest in foreign volunteers. This paper introduces the Demand for Foreign Volunteers Theory (DFVT) to explain the diver...

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Main Author: Mendelsohn, Barak 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2022, Volume: 34, Issue: 4, Pages: 682-705
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Al Qaeda
Ahrar al-Sham
YPG
Jabhat al-Nusra
Civil War
Ideology
Organizations
Terrorism
Syria
Foreign fighters

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