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Ghosts of International Law: The Figure of the Foreign Fighter in a Cultural Perspective

Ghosts of International Law: The Figure of the Foreign Fighter in a Cultural Perspective

Name: Ghosts of International Law: The Figure of the Foreign Fighter in a Cultural Perspective
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009358361
Price: 1261.00 HKD
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Author: Alberto Rinaldi
ISBN: 9781009358361

By Alberto Rinaldi

Cambridge University Press December 2024

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ISBN-13: 9781009358361
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: December 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Heroes and villains, idealists and mercenaries, freedom fighters and religious fanatics. Foreign fighters tend to defy easy classification. Good and bad images of the foreign combatant epitomize different conceptions of freedom and are used to characterize the rightness or wrongness of this actor in civil wars. The book traces the history of these figures and their afterlife. It does so through an interdisciplinary methodology employing law, history, and psychoanalytical theory, showing how different images of the foreign combatant are utilized to proscribe or endorse foreign fighters in different historical moments. By linking the Spanish, Angolan, and Syrian civil wars, the book demonstrates how these figures function as a precedent for later periods and how their heritage keeps haunting the imaginary of legal actors in the present.

Introduction

1. The Spanish Civil war and the legacy of Nineteenth Century adventurers

2. The return of the mercenaries: The 1976 Luanda trial in context

3. Enemies of humanity or freedom fighters? The Jihadist combatant in the Syrian Civil war

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