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MONTENEGRO: Montenegro and the Foreign Fighter Phenomenon
MONTENEGRO: Montenegro and the Foreign Fighter Phenomenon

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Civil Society, Governance, Islam studies, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Studies in violence and power, Radical sociology , Penal Policy, Sociology of Religion, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Atlantska inicijativa: Udruženje za promicanje euroatlantskih integracija BiH
Keywords: Montenegro; foreign fighters; Western Balkans; foreign battlefields; Iraq; Syria; Islamic State; Montenegrin government; ISIL; terrorism;
Summary/Abstract: Like other countries in the region, Montenegro has had its fair share of citizens participating as foreign fighters on battlefields abroad; and for the purpose of this study, we will focus on Montenegrin foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq. Due to its geographical location and shared borders with countries that have dealt to a greater degree with this phenomenon – such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Albania – the number of Montenegrin foreign fighters joining the fronts of the so-called Islamic State has varied over time, reaching its peak in 2014. Numbers in 2016 were the lowest they have been since the start of the phenomenon; and one can argue that this is the result of legal and operational mechanisms implemented by the Montenegrin government in 2015. [...]

  • Page Range: 71-82
  • Page Count: 12
  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Language: English