David Malet

Foreign Fighters

Transnational Identity in Civil Conflicts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Transnational participation in insurgencies, often associated with Islamists, has been prevalent in wars throughout history. Foreign Fighters is the comprehensive study of foreign fighters. It examines patterns of recruitment using original data sets and detailed diverse case studies, and how recruiters use frames of existential threat to strengthen rebel groups.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780190691899
• ISBN-10: 0190691891
• Artikelnr.: 47868907

Autorenporträt

David Malet is Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Why We Fight (Elsewhere)
2: A History of Foreign Fighters
3: The Texas Revolution (1835-1836)
4: The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
5: The Israeli War of Independence (1947-1949)
6: Afghanistan (1978-1992) and Beyond
Conclusion: Responses to Transnational Insurgency
Appendix A: Development of the Term "Foreign Fighter"
Appendix B: Observation Set Coding
Bibliography