Europe's Foreign Fighter Conundrum: Legal Responses, the Rule of Law, and Human Rights

This book explores how Europe can resolve its foreign fighter conundrum without losing its credibility as a guardian of the rule of law and human rights. Centring on European foreign fighters who travelled to the armed conflict in Syria and Iraq, this book examines to which extent legal responses to the security threat posed by foreign fighters have been consistent with the rule of law and human rights.

The transnational nature of the foreign fighter phenomenon has created a messy labyrinth...