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Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: The Brown–Red Cocktail book cover

1st Edition

Foreign Fighters in Ukraine The Brown–Red Cocktail

By Kacper Rękawek Copyright 2023
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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Foreign Fighters in Ukraine is the first comprehensive academic study taking an in-depth look at foreigners who have chosen to fight in the conflict in Ukraine. While there has been considerable focus in policy, security and academic circles on the threat from returning jihadists – so-called returnee foreign terrorist fighters – the same danger from right-wing, but not essentially terrorist,... Read more

1. Introduction: The Western European Foreign Fighter Secret Society

2. Conflict: Myth and Reality in the War in Ukraine

3. Hosts of the Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: Volunteer Battalions and Popular Militias

4. "Two Sides of the Same Coin"? Ideological (Non) Split on the European Far Right vis-à-vis the War in Ukraine

5. France: "To Fight American Imperialism"

6. Sweden: "Fight Them There So They Don’t Come Here"

7. Balkans: Repeating the 1990s War in Yugoslavia?

8. Other Western Europeans (and Americans): A Few Here, A Few There

9. Central-Eastern Europeans (CEE): More Red than Brown?

10. Elephant in the Room: Russian Foreign Fighters in the War in Ukraine

11. Conclusion

12. "Concerned Citizens of the World?" Foreign Volunteers for Ukraine in 2022

Biography

Kacper Rękawek is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-Rex), University of Oslo, Norway, and a Researcher at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP).

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