1st Edition

Networked Insurgencies and Foreign Fighters in Eurasia

Edited By Jean-Francois Ratelle, Laurence Broers Copyright 2018
212 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

Recent wars in Eurasia have foregrounded the flows of foreign fighters between distinct insurgent battlefronts. Since 2011 thousands of individuals have travelled from the Caucasus and Central Asia to fight in Syria and Iraq. Caucasians have also appeared in the fighting that followed Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution in 2014. Resolutions of these conflicts promise further movements as foreign... Read more

1. Introduction: Researching Networked Insurgencies and Foreign Fighters in Eurasia2. Foreign Fighter Mobilization and Persistence in a Global Context  3. Foreign Fighters and the Case of Chechnya: A Critical Assessment  4. Foreign Bodies: Transnational Activism, the Insurgency in the North Caucasus and "Beyond"  5. The impact of jihadist foreign fighters on indigenous secular-nationalist causes: Contrasting Chechnya and Syria  6. Between Caucasus and Caliphate: The Splintering of the North Caucasus Insurgency  7. North Caucasian Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Assessing the Threat of Returnees to the Russian Federation   8. The Islamic State and the Connections to Historical Networks of Jihadism in Azerbaijan  9. Building Resilient Secular Citizens: Tajikistan’s Response to the Islamic State  10. Same Sides of Different Coins: Contrasting Militant Activisms between Georgian Fighters in Syria and Ukraine



 

Biography



Jean-François Ratelle is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada.





Laurence Broers is Research Associate at the Centre for the Contemporary Central Asia and Caucasus, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.