Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Why We Fight (Elsewhere)
2: A History of Foreign Fighters
3: The Texas Revolution (1835-1836)
4: The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
5: The Israeli War of Independence (1947-1949)
6: Afghanistan (1978-1992) and Beyond
Conclusion: Responses to Transnational Insurgency
Appendix A: Development of the Term "Foreign Fighter"
Appendix B: Observation Set Coding
Bibliography

About the Author

David Malet is Director of the Security Policy Studies Program of the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs

Reviews

"One of the reasons for this book's importance is that - when it was first published in 2013 - it was one of the first studies on the phenomenon of volunteer foreign fighters, with its findings still relevant to understanding how this problem has evolved since then." -- Joshua Sinai, Perspectives on Terrorism
"[A] thorough exploration of why and how foreign fighters get involved in
wars far away from their homes..." -- Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs
"...undoubtedly offers important insights for policymakers, military strategists and scholars
alike." -- Ilana Rothkopf, LSE Review of Books
"In Malet's view, modern transnational jihadist fighters are part of a long historical tradition that includes Communists like Che Guevara and William Alexander Morgan who fought in the Cuban Revolution, Zionists like future haircare pioneer Vidal Sassoon who fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, anti-fascists like Andre Malraux and George Orwell who fought in the Spanish Civil War, Americans like Davy Crockett who fought in the Texas Revolution, or
nationalist romantics Lord Byron, who fought in the Greek War of Independence." -- Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy