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What drives Europeans to Syria, and to IS? Insights from the Belgian case. Egmont Paper No. 75, March 2015

Coolsaet, Rik (2015) What drives Europeans to Syria, and to IS? Insights from the Belgian case. Egmont Paper No. 75, March 2015. [Policy Paper]

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    Abstract

    ‘A bizarre phenomenon,’ Der Spiegel concluded, after trying to figure out why youngsters left Germany to become foreign fighters in Syria. The magazine painted a portrait of two thirty-somethings with similar background and the same hobby – martial arts. One became director of a martial arts school in Hamburg, the other became a terrorist poster boy in Syria.1

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    Item Type: Policy Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-Middle East
    EU policies and themes > External relations > conflict resolution/crisis management
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    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
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    Series: Series > Egmont : Royal Institute for International Affairs > Egmont Papers
    Depositing User: Unnamed user with email kms214@pitt.edu
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 04 May 2015 15:15
    Number of Pages: 24
    Last Modified: 04 May 2015 15:15
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/63583

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