Unraveling Spatial, Structural, and Social Country-Level Conditions for the Emergence of the Foreign Fighter Phenomenon: An Exploratory Data Mining Approach to the Case Of ISIS
Journal: Dados
Year: 2022

ABSTRACT Governments face a tough and timeless challenge: dealing with the capability of radical terrorist organizations to recruit foreign fighters. However, scholars so far have ignored that this phenomenon pertains to the realm of complexity theory, failing to determine the combination of country-level variables able to catalyze this issue. This is an important concern if countries want to design effective socio-political strategies aimed at decreasing terrorist groups’ capability to enroll f