%0 Journal Article 
%A Marrero Rocha, Inmaculada
%T Foreign Fighters and Jihadists: Challenges for International and European Security
%D 2015
%@ 2341-0868
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/19538
%X Over the past three years the number of foreign fghters either resident in Europe or
of European nationality fghting in conflicts in Syria and Iraq has increased. Most of them share
radical Islamist religious motivations, and many States and international institutions classify them
as terrorists or potential terrorists. In this study we aim to identify and characterize the phenomenon
of foreign fghters starting from a historical perspective until reaching their impact on current
international security relations. This work also analyses the causes why some groups of foreign
fghters might pose a greater danger to national security than in earlier periods, and the reasons
why the increase in the number of foreign fghters in armed conflict generates a series of changes
in conflictual international relations. Finally it analyses the fundamentals of the measures proposed
by the Security Council, the European Union and international cooperation forums to deal with
the danger posed by foreign fghters of European origin, especially those proposals that impose
sanctions as well as those that prefer to tackle the problem from a preventive and rehabilitative
perspective of the individual.


%K Foreign fgther
%K jihadist
%K international security
%K european security
%K Combattant étranger
%K djihadisme
%K sécurité internationale
%K sécurité européenne
%K Combatiente extranjero
%K yihadista
%K seguridad internacional
%K seguridad europea
%~ Universidad de Cádiz