Unraveling Spatial, Structural, and Social Country-Level Conditions for the Emergence of the Foreign Fighter Phenomenon
An Exploratory Data Mining Approach to the Case Of Isis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9684603 |
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| Authors | Agustín Pájaro (0000-0001-8660-2616, Academia de Guerra Naval, Chile), Ignacio J Duran (0000-0002-9188-0538, Univ. Ramon Llull, Spain), Pierre Rodrigo (0000-0002-0017-4321, Adolfo Ibáñez University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dados (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5258 • E-ISSN: 1678-4588 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/dados.2022.65.3.270 |
| OpenAlex | W4226405107 |
| SciELO | S0011-52582022000300207 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 45 |
Governments face a tough and timeless challenge: dealing with the capability of radical terrorist organizations to recruit foreign fighters. However, scholars so far have ignored that this phenomenon pertains to the realm of complexity theory, failing to determine the combination of country-level variables able to catalyze this issue. This is an important concern if countries want to design effective socio-political strategies aimed at decreasing terrorist groups’ capability to enroll foreign fighters or, at least, to curtail the penetration of their radical message. Thus, to address this issue we undertake an exploratory data mining approach (knowledge discovery in databases) to discover country-level patterns which might engender conditions that induce people to join an extremist organization, based on the case of ISIS. After a pre-selection procedure, the 950 variables initially selected were reduced to 22, and subsequently used in decision tree algorithms. Findings reveal the existence of six specific country clusters, which are characterized by some spatial, structural (economic and political), and social variables that create favorable conditions for the emergence of the phenomenon. Academic and practical recommendations are then discussed
Epistemology · Exploratory research · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Terrorism · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Multivariate data analysis
Ecological Inference
Complexity Theory and Public Management
The New Global Jihad, 9–11 and the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Complexity theory and the War on Terror
Tweeting the Jihad
Women’s Radicalization to Religious Terrorism
The Western Muhajirat of Isis
Foreign Fighters and the Radicalization of Local Jihad
Belgian and Dutch Young Men and Women Who Joined Isis
Help Wanted? The Mixed Record of Foreign Fighters in Domestic Insurgencies
Ukraine and the Art of Limited War
Why Foreign Fighters
Foreign Fighters—Recent Trends
Narratives and Counternarratives
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Explaining Variation in Western Jihadists' Choice between Domestic and Foreign Fighting
Using thematic analysis in psychology
IRT Models for Expert-Coded Panel Data
Global Jihad and Foreign Fighters
ShiftingModus Operandiof Jihadist Foreign Fighters From the Netherlands Between 2000 and 2013
What Explains the Flow of Foreign Fighters to Isis
Contemporary Cultures of Abstinence and the Nighttime Economy
Foreign Fighters in Iraq
Somalia and Yemen
Humanitarian trends and dilemmas
Leisure Time in Modern Societies
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