Foreign Fighters and Jihadists: Challenges for International and European Security

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https://doi.org/10.25267/Paix_secur_int.2015.i3.04Info
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Abstract: Over the past three years the number of foreign fighters either resident in Europe or of European nationality fighting in confl icts in Syria and Iraq has increased. Most of them share radical Islamist religious motivations, and many States and international institutions classify them as terrorists or potential terrorists. In this study we aim to identify and characterize the phenomenon of foreign fighters starting from a historical perspective until reaching their impact on current international security relations. This work also analyses the causes why some groups of foreign fighters might pose a greater danger to national security than in earlier periods, and the reasons why the increase in the number of foreign fighters in armed conflict generates a series of changes in conflictual international relations. Finally it analyses the fundamentals of the measures proposed by the Security Council, the European Union and international cooperation forums to deal with the danger posed by foreign fighters of European origin, especially those proposals that impose sanctions as well as those that prefer to tackle the problem from a preventive and rehabilitative perspective of the individual.
Keywords: Foreign figther, jihadist, international security, european security.
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