German foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq
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- Publication date
- 2016-03
- Topics
- foreign fighters, jihadist mobilization, radicalization, ISIS, Syrian civil war, anchoring, bloc mobilization, terrorist recruiting, online radicalization
- Publisher
- Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
- Collection
- navalpostgraduateschoollibrary; fedlink
- Language
- English
This thesis examines why approximately 700 German foreign fighters traveled to Syria and Iraq between early 2012 and late 2015. It presents the author’s original research on 99 German foreign fighter profiles, examining their preexisting network connections in Germany as well as their biographical availability and integration into German society. The study finds that German foreign fighters are primarily mobilized through traditional social network connections and that the mobilizing network in Germany consists of a nationwide, interconnected, and politically active Salafist scene. The project also finds that while Western governments often worry about the looming threat of online radicalization, verifiable examples of purely Internet-based radicalization remain rare.
- Addeddate
- 2019-05-05 02:48:28
- Advisor
- Baylouny, Anne Marie
Hafez, Mohammed
- Degree_discipline
- Security Studies (Middle East, South Asia, Sub-saharan Africa)
- Degree_grantor
- Naval Postgraduate School
- Degree_level
- Masters
- Degree_name
- Master of Arts in Security Studies (Middle East, South Asia, Sub-saharan Africa)
- Department
- National Security Affairs
- Distributionstatement
- Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
- Dspace_note
- Note, the Item of Record as published can be found at https://hdl.handle.net/10945/48583.
- External-identifier
- urn:handle:10945/48583
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- germforeignfight1094548583
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t5t80185s
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- en
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- Page_number_confidence
- 82.86
- Pages
- 107
- Ppi
- 300
- Recognition
- Outstanding Thesis
- Rights
- This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
- Scanner
- Internet Archive Python library 1.8.1
- Service
- Major, United States Air Force
- Type
- Thesis
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