Dayon et al: Career Foreign Fighters
Tags: papers, militias,bosnia, talks
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 conflicts produce more
- Some FF’s have come with a letter of recommendation
- No single individual profile of FF’s
Overview
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Daymon, Chelsea, Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn, and David Malet. “Career Foreign Fighters: Expertise Transmission Across Insurgencies.” RESOLVE Network, April 13, 2020. https://doi.org/10.37805/ogrr2020.1.cff.
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Foreign fighters (FF’s) are debated whether they are more dangerous returning to their country or left unaccounted for
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Many FF’s enjoy career progression from one conflict to another
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Discusses the crime/terror nexus in europe
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FF’s interactions with local communities sometimes makes them liabilities
- afghanistan was the case for many of the ansars
Malet, David, and Miriam J. Anderson, eds. Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2017.
FF’s go to defend a transnational community percieved to be under existential threat
- FF’s also see higher casualty rates
Bosnia jihad
- First wave of FF’s were largely useless
- Second wave had combat experience from afghanistan, which made them far more useful
Staniland, Paul. Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.
Rebel leaders either build deeply integration “vertical” ties or rely on more dispered “idealogical” ties