The Making of European Foreign Fighters

Ömer Behram Özdemir · Tuncay Kardaş

Οκτ 2014 · Analysis Βιβλίο 11 · SETA

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This study examines the case of European foreign fighters by employing a threefold analytical framework of identity-claims, meaning-making/motives and means of radicalization.

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Tuncay KARDAŞ

Dr. Tuncay Kardaş is Associate Professor of international relations in the Department of In­ternational Relations at Sakarya University. He received his BA and MA degrees from Bilkent University; MsEcon (Security Studies) and PhD from the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University in 2006. He is teaching IR Theory at Sakarya and Marmara Univer­sities. His research focuses on Critical Security Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, governmental­ity, semiotics of media and foreign policy. He was a visiting scholar conducting research on visual semiotics of security in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu, Esto­nia. He is the co-editor of “The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntington’s Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to Virtual Ummah”, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009). His recent articles appeared in Middle East Critique, Insight Turkey, Alternatives: Turkish Journal of In­ternational Relations andEconomics and Management: Current Issues and Perspectives and Birikim. He is the organizer of Crisis and Critique Conferences and an editorial board member of Ortadoğu Yıllığı and Perceptions. Dr. Kardaş is currently working on the following research projects; ISSDIT: Inter-Societal Security Dilemmas in Turkey (ORMER, Sakarya University) and ISSDIME: Inter-Societal Security Dilemmas in the Middle East (the Institute for Middle East Studies of Marmara University).

Ömer Behram ÖZDEMİR

Ömer Behram Özdemir is a research assisstant in SAMEC (Sakarya University Center for Mid­dle Eastern Studies). Focuses on Syrian civil war and Islamist armed groups in Levant.