RT Book
T1 Foreign fighters in Ukraine: the brown-red cocktail
T2 Routledge studies in facism and the far right
A1 Rekawek, Kacper
LA English
PP London New York
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2023
ED First published
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1831043998
AB Foreign Fighters in Ukraine is the first comprehensive academic study taking an in-depth look at foreigners who have chosen to fight in the conflict in Ukraine. While there has been considerable focus in policy, security and academic circles on the threat from returning jihadists - so-called returnee foreign terrorist fighters - the same danger from right-wing, but not essentially terrorist, extremists and others has been largely overlooked. As Westerners rushed to join the nascent Caliphate in Syria/Iraq, others simultaneously traveled to another foreign war on what many would call Europe's doorstep: the Russo-Ukrainian war. This book unmasks this largely unknown group of fighters as the author dives into the fighters' ideological and social backgrounds, their motivations for joining the conflict, their travails on the way there and their battle record in Eastern Ukraine. To a large extent based on interviews with the fighters themselves, it is a study on how and why men risk their lives while fighting a foreign war - and attract the attention of security services at home upon their return. Particularly, given the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the growing interest in far-right violence worldwide, the book evaluates whether these returnees constitute another security threat to the West.
NO Register
CN 947.7086
SN 9781032030807
SN 9781032043982
K1 Kombattant
K1 Ausländer
K1 Söldner
K1 Rekrutierung
K1 Militär
K1 Ideologie
K1 Rechtsradikalismus
K1 Ukraine