Description
This panel brings together scholars working on foreign fighters. Even though transnational activism has been recognised as an important feature of the international system, questions about mobilisation, a focus on comparative studies, and well-trodden examples still dominate debates about foreign fighters in IR. Instead, the panel will examine often neglected cases and themes, such as analysis of returnees and repatriation. In this way, the panel will contribute to theoretical and empirical research on transnational activism, foreign fighters, returnees, and armed non-state actors.
