Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words

This article presents data from interviews with eighteen individuals from Western countries who volunteered to fight in Syria with the Kurdish YPG against the Islamic State. We find that, despite predictions in the literature about ideological or religious indoctrination as the primary factor motiva...

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1. VerfasserIn: Malet, David 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Farrell-Molloy, Joshua ; Young, Joseph
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2025
In: Terrorism and political violence
Jahr: 2025, Band: 37, Heft: 1, Seiten: 93-110
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