Beschreibung:
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Foreign Fighters is the comprehensive study of foreign fighters examines patterns of recruitment using original data sets and detailed diverse case studies, and how recruiters use frames of existential threat to strengthen rebel groups.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; 1: WHY WE FIGHT (ELSEWHERE) ; 2: A HISTORY OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS ; 3: THE TEXAS REVOLUTION (1835-1836) ; 4: THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR (1936-1939) ; 5: THE ISRAELI WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1947-1949) ; 6: AFGHANISTAN (1978-1992) AND BEYOND ; CONCLUSION: RESPONSES TO TRANSNATIONAL INSURGENCY ; APPENDIX A: DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERM <"FOREIGN FIGHTER>" ; APPENDIX B: OBSERVATION SET CODING ; BIBLIOGRAPHY