From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists: Human Resources of Non-State Armed Groups

ISBN-13: 9780190939755 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 344 str.

Vera Mironova

Recenzje

...a significant contribution to International Relations scholarship, particularly in the areas of rebel governance and terrorist financing. The book is based on ethnographic research in Syria: Mironova conducted over 600 interviews with members of the Free Syrian Army, Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The author uses labour market theory to explore the complexities of non-state armed groups, focusing on human and financial resources, leadership and management.

O autorze

Vera Mironova is Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Maryland and for three years was an International Security Fellow at the Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Mironova, whose research explores individual level behavior in conflict environments, has conducted fieldwork in numerous active conflict zones and post-conflict regions all over the world, and from 2016 to 2017, she was embedded with Iraqi Special Operations Forces during the Mosul Operation. Her scholarship has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Foreign Policy, BBC, and The Boston Globe. She has also served as a commentator for a number of major media outlets, including The New York Times, the Associated Press, Washington Post, and Vice News.