Returning Islamist Foreign Fighters

Elena Pokalova is Associate Professor of Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University, USA. Her research areas include terrorism, radicalization, countering violent extremism, ethnic conflict, and the Caucasus.

• 1. The Returnee Challenge.- 2. Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Aberration from History or History Repeated?.- 3. Foreign Fighters After the Conflict Ends.- 4. Foreign Fighter Returnees from Syria and Iraq.- 5. Dealing with the Challenge: Responses to Foreign Fighters and Foreign Fighter Returnees.- 6. Prosecution of Foreign Fighter Returnees.- 7. Women, Jihad, and Female Returnees.- 8. Child Returnees.- 9. Moving Forward.

“Pokalova’s book is an important quest to understand a form of terrorism that still poses perils to the West and should not be taken lightly.” (C. C. Lovett, Choice, Vol. 58 (1), September, 2020)