Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines the challenges foreign fighter returnees from Syria and Iraq pose to Western countries. A number of returnees have demonstrated that they are willing to use violence against their home countries, and some have already staged terrorist attacks on Western soil on apparent orders from ISIS. Through the historical context of previous waves of mobilizations of Islamist foreign fighters, the author tracks the experiences of returnees from previous conflicts and discusses the major security challenges associated with them. The book analyzes the major approaches implemented by Western countries in response to foreign fighter returnees, discusses the prosecution of returnees, and evaluates the corresponding challenges of prison radicalization.
Trade Review“Pokalova’s book is an important quest to understand a form of terrorism that still poses perils to the West and should not be taken lightly.” (C. C. Lovett, Choice, Vol. 58 (1), September, 2020)
Table of ContentsChapter 1The Returnee Challenge
Chapter 2Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Aberration from History or History Repeated?
Chapter 3Foreign Fighters After the Conflict Ends
Chapter 4Foreign Fighter Returnees from Syria and Iraq
Chapter 5Dealing with the Challenge: Responses to Foreign Fighters and Foreign Fighter Returnees
Chapter 6Prosecution of Foreign Fighter Returnees
Chapter 7Women, Jihad, and Female Returnees
Chapter 8Child Returnees
Chapter 9Moving Forward
