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Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad de Daniel Byman

Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad

Autor Daniel Byman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 aug 2019

Subliniem expertiza autorului Daniel Byman, profesor la Universitatea Georgetown și fost membru al Comisiei 9/11, a cărui carieră este dedicată analizei terorismului și securității naționale. În Road Warriors, publicată de Oxford University Press, Byman oferă o istorie cuprinzătoare a fenomenului luptătorilor străini, începând cu rezistența din Afganistan din 1979 și continuând cu conflictele din Bosnia, Cecenia și, mai recent, Siria. Reținem perspectiva sa analitică asupra modului în care acești combatanți devin „războinici profesioniști”, migrând de la un front la altul și creând rețele transnaționale greu de destructurat. Lucrarea completează temele explorate anterior de autor în Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement, dar se concentrează specific pe individul care alege să lupte în afara granițelor sale, spre deosebire de Spreading Hate, unde Byman a analizat extremismul de dreapta. Recomandăm acest volum pentru rigoarea cu care documentează transformarea grupărilor ultra-violente, precum AQI, în entități reziliente ca Statul Islamic. Road Warriors acoperă o arie similară cu Terrorist Movements and the Recruitment of Arab Foreign Fighters de Roger Warren, dar acolo unde Warren se bazează pe seturi de date biografice pentru a explica radicalizarea, Byman oferă o abordare mai extinsă, istorică și strategică, integrând eforturile de contra-terorism ale Occidentului în narațiunea globală a conflictului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190646516
ISBN-10: 0190646519
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 236 x 157 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte oricărui student sau specialist în relații internaționale care dorește să înțeleagă mecanismele din spatele mișcărilor jihadiste. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care conflictele regionale produc amenințări globale. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege de ce fenomenul luptătorilor străini rămâne o provocare constantă pentru securitatea europeană și americană, în ciuda succeselor militare punctuale.

Despre autor

Daniel Byman este profesor la Programul de Securitate al Școlii de Serviciu Extern Edmund A. Walsh din cadrul Universității Georgetown. Expert recunoscut la nivel mondial, Byman deține și funcția de cercetător senior la Brookings Institution și a contribuit direct la politicile de securitate ale SUA în calitate de membru al personalului Comisiei 9/11. Opera sa include analize fundamentale despre dinamica coerciției, conflictele etnice și istoria grupărilor teroriste, fiind una dintre cele mai autoritare voci în studiul politicii din Orientul Mijlociu și al terorismului contemporan.

Descriere

Ever since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, fighters from abroad have journeyed in ever-greater numbers to conflict zones in the Muslim world to defend Islam from-in their view-infidels and apostates. The phenomenon recently reached its apogee in Syria, where the foreign fighter population quickly became larger and more diverse than in any previous conflict. In Road Warriors, Daniel Byman provides a sweeping history of the jihadist foreign fighter movement. He begins by chronicling the movement's birth in Afghanistan, its growing pains in Bosnia and Chechnya, and its emergence as a major source of terrorism in the West in the 1990s, culminating in the 9/11 attacks. Since that bloody day, the foreign fighter movement has seen major ups and downs. It rode high after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, when the ultra-violent Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) attracted thousands of foreign fighters. AQI overreached, however, and suffered a crushing defeat. Demonstrating the resilience of the movement, however, AQI reemerged anew during the Syrian civil war as the Islamic State, attracting tens of thousands of fighters from around the world and spawning the bloody 2015 attacks in Paris among hundreds of other strikes. Although casualty rates are usually high, the survivors of Afghanistan, Syria, and other fields of jihad often became skilled professional warriors, going from one war to the next. Still others returned to their home countries, some to peaceful retirement but a deadly few to conduct terrorist attacks. Over time, both the United States and Europe have learned to adapt. Before 9/11, volunteers went to and fro to Afghanistan and other hotspots with little interference. Today, the United States and its allies have developed a global program to identify, arrest, and kill foreign fighters. Much remains to be done, however-jihadist ideas and networks are by now deeply embedded, even as groups such as Al Qaeda and the Islamic State rise and fall. And as Byman makes abundantly clear, the problem is not likely to go away any time soon.

Recenzii

a high-quality, monograph that includes a solid number of sources and references.
...fascinating... Byman tells the stories of some well-known and a few not so well-known foreign fighters to show how the system evolved over the decades, through several cycles of mobilization.
Byman sits at the top of everybody's shortlist of preeminent scholar/teachers on terrorism and counterterrorism. He has produced a book that will prove every bit as valuable to senior policymakers and practitioners as it will be to generations of scholars and students. Road Warriors is carefully researched and documented and yet it still reads like a first-rate novel as it traces the intellectual and physical journey traveled by this latest generation of jihadist fighters.
Foreign fighters from Osama bin Laden to the ISIS 'Beatles' are force multipliers who have contributed to making jihadist conflicts more ideological and more violent. In this major work of synthesis, Byman elucidates a myriad of sources to create the best account we have of the foreign fighter phenomenon over the past half century.
Byman's unique study of the phenomenon of foreign fighters is the prism through which he provides a thorough and fascinating story of the origins and evolution of both al Qaeda and the most important jihadist battlefields over the course of the last thirty-plus years.
In nearly every conflict in which I've been involved, foreign fighters have played a significant and dangerous role. These disparate groups and individuals have grown to be a permanent fixture of modern extremist movements, and are tied irrevocably to unresolved sources of radicalization, the power of jihadi narratives, the emergence of social media, and the ease of international travel. Byman has captured all of this in one book, which I wish had been available to other commanders and me a generation ago as America first began to grapple with the horrific reality of global terrorism. He has done us all a great service, and I commend this excellent book in the strongest possible terms.

Notă biografică

Daniel Byman is a Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.