Collecting and Sharing Intelligence on Foreign Fighters in the EU and its Member States

Existing Tools, Limitations and Opportunities

Author(s): Matteo E. Bonfanti
Editor(s): Andrea de Guttry, Francesca Capone, Christophe Paulussen
Book Title: Foreign Fighters under International Law and Beyond
Pages: 333-353
Publisher(s): Springer
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Place: The Hague

This book offers various perspectives, with an international legal focus, on an important and underexplored topic that has recently gained momentum: the issue of foreign fighters. It provides an overview of the challenges, pays considerable attention to the status of foreign fighters, and addresses numerous approaches, at both the supranational and the national level, on how to tackle this problem. Outstanding experts in the field – lawyers, historians, and political scientists – contributed to the present volume, providing the reader with a multitude of views concerning this multifaceted phenomenon. Particular attention is paid to its implications in light of the armed conflicts currently taking place in Syria and Iraq.

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