Transnational volunteers: American foreign fighters combating the Islamic State

Why do some people go abroad to engage in other people’s wars? Some studies attempt to discern why individuals choose to fight in distant lands (Malet, 2013) or seek to count how many do so (Hegghammer, 2013). The term foreign fighter has been used nearly exclusively in recent research to describe t...

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Authors: Fritz, Jason (Author) ; Young, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 449-468
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Keywords:
Foreign fighters
Iraq
Islamic State
Syria
transnational volunteers

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