Foreign volunteers intensify the conflicts to which they travel, and can destabilize the countries to which they travel next. To protect the international community against this foreign fighter fallout, the Transnational Threats Project (TNT) has launched a multi-year study to examine the threat. The study combines insights from TNT’s on-the-ground field interviews with cutting edge research to illuminate this global phenomenon.
Foreign Fighter Fallout traces mobilization pathways to understand who may return and how, then examines preexisting grievances and demographic factors across Russia, Europe, and Southeast Asia to help create frameworks for limiting the damage migrating fighters pose.