Dayon et al: Career Foreign Fighters [c10c31d1]

1. Talk

Career FF's have an outside impact on the conflicts they go to
Typically bring in transnational links
Conflicts that lack a credible threat of genocide typically have harder time drumming up FF's
Career FF's are greater security threat than non-career ones
Limited window of opportunity for inhibiting FF's
- Some conflicts produce more
  - This effect is hard to disentagle from the time since the war, however
Some FF's have come with a letter of recommendation
No single individual profile of FF's

Daymon, Chelsea, Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn, and David Malet. “Career Foreign Fighters: Expertise Transmission Across Insurgencies.” RESOLVE Network, April 13, 2020. doi.org/10.37805/ogrr2020.1.cff.
Foreign fighters (FF's) are debated whether they are more dangerous returning to their country or left unaccounted for
Many FF's enjoy career progression from one conflict to another
Discusses the crime/terror nexus in europe
FF's interactions with local communities sometimes makes them liabilities
- afghanistan was the case for many of the ansars

FF's go to defend a transnational community percieved to be under existential threat

First wave of FF's were largely useless
Second wave had combat experience from afghanistan, which made them far more useful

Rebel leaders either build deeply integration "vertical" ties or rely on more dispered "idealogical" ties