Returning Foreign Fighters: Responses, Legal Challenges and Ways Forward

This book, a follow-up publication to the 2016 volume Foreign Fighters under International Law and Beyond, zooms in on the responses that the international community and individual States are implementing in response to (prospective and actual) returning foreign fighters (FFs) and their families, focusing on returnees from Syria and Iraq to European countries.  As States and international organisations are still ‘learning by doing’, the role of the academic community is to help steer the pr