Returning Islamist Foreign Fighters: Threats And Challenges To The West

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This 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-x The Returnee Challenge (Elena Pokalova)....Pages 1-9 Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Aberration from History or History Repeated? (Elena Pokalova)....Pages 11-58 Foreign Fighters After the Conflict Ends (Elena Pokalova)....Pages 59-77 Foreign Fighter Returnees from Syria and Iraq (Elena Pokalova)....Pages 79-104 Dealing with the Challenge: Responses to Foreign Fighters and Foreign Fighter Returnees (Elena Pokalova)....Pages 105-135 Prosecution of Foreign Fighter Returnees (Elena Pokalova)....Pages 137-164 Women, Jihad, and Female Returnees (Elena Pokalova)....Pages 165-194 Child Returnees (Elena Pokalova)....Pages 195-216 Moving Forward (Elena Pokalova)....Pages 217-222 Back Matter ....Pages 223-242