Dr. Colin P. Clarke, Dr. Paul Rexton Kan
In Nov 2017, nosotros co-authored “Uighur Foreign Fighters: An Underexamined Jihadist Challenge,” published yesteryear the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism- The Hague (ICCT). Uighurs, specifically individuals of Turkic decent from China’s northwest province of Xinjiang, convey live a noticeable business office of the constellation of globally active jihadist terror groups. Uighur jihadists commencement came to the world’s attending when the United States of America in addition to its allies invaded Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan inwards 2001. While continuing their cooperation amongst the Taliban nether the banner of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Uighur jihadists convey straight off spread to Southeast Asia in addition to the Middle East. ETIM’s members are business office of the Turkestan Islamic Party fighting amongst the Al-Qaeda umbrella grouping inwards Syria, but other Uighurs convey joined the Islamic State in addition to yet others convey joined terrorist groups inwards Indonesia.
Despite their ascension prominence inside the global jihadist movement, Uighurs are currently underexamined equally active participants inwards militant groups. Publications almost Uighurs convey been piecemeal – focusing on their struggles against the Chinese regime or narrowly describing the specific groups inwards which Uighurs convey been participants. Our Policy Brief explores the range in addition to scale of Uighur Foreign Fighters (UFF) activeness inwards diverse locations, its implications in addition to how their participation inwards global jihadist groups may evolve inwards the future. This is a peculiarly of import evolution to assess, especially equally the IS caliphate continues to deteriorate in addition to unusual terrorist fighters try to provide to their countries of origin, or third-party countries where they could link upward amongst other terrorist in addition to insurgent groups.
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There has been some relatively recent question inwards this surface area which nosotros convey followed amongst bang-up interest. Michael Clarke has a forthcoming majority Terrorism in addition to Counter-Terrorism (Hurst, 2018) inwards PRC that examines an array of issues related to Uighur terrorism in addition to includes chapters yesteryear Raffaello Pantucci on “Uighur Terrorism inwards a Fractured Middle East” in addition to Sean Roberts on “The Narrative of Uighur Terrorism in addition to the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Uighur Militancy.” Other recent question has focused on China’s purpose of applied scientific discipline equally a counter-terrorism tool, including articles such equally “China Has Turned Xinjiang Into a Police State Like No Other,” from The Economist, in addition to similar question yesteryear the United States of America Institute of Peace (USIP) on “China’s Approach to International Terrorism,” in addition to the Jamestown Foundation’s Terrorism Monitor on “The Uighurs in addition to China’s Regional Counter-Terrorism Efforts.”
In add-on to several form out pieces of question related to the crime-terror nexus, Clarke is currently working on a majority for Polity Press titled “After the Caliphate: The Islamic State in addition to the Future Terrorist Diaspora,” which examines the evolution of the global jihadist crusade in addition to attempts to line what volition conduct house next, equally the Caliphate dissolves in addition to unusual terrorist fighters displace on to novel conflicts unopen to the world. He has a recent article amongst Assaf Moghadam titled “Mapping Today’s Jihadi Landscape in addition to Threat,” which appears inwards a special effect of Orbis equally business office of a special projection yesteryear the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI).
Paul R. Kan is working on a projection is entitled “Militias: The Global Challenge of Paramilitary Violence,” which analyzes a specific international safety effect that militias inwards diverse countries affect: frail states, human rights in addition to democratization, illicit trafficking in addition to transnational crime, internal conflicts, in addition to proxy wars.
Read the 2017 Policy Brief: Uighur Foreign Fighters: An Underexamined Jihadist Challenge
Colin P. Clarke is an Associate Fellow at ICCT. He is also a Senior Fellow inwards the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in addition to a political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where his question focuses on terrorism, insurgency in addition to criminal networks. At RAND, Clarke has directed studies on ISIS financing, the futurity of terrorism in addition to transnational crime, in addition to lessons learned from all insurgencies betwixt the cease of WWII in addition to 2009. He is also a lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches courses on terrorism, insurgency in addition to the futurity of warfare.
Paul Rexton Kan is Associate Professor of National Security Studies in addition to the Henry L. Stimson Chair of Military Studies at the United States of America Army War College. He is the writer of the books Drugs in addition to Contemporary Warfare in addition to Cartels at War: Mexico’s Drug-Fueled Violence in addition to the Threat to United States of America National Security. He is also the writer of numerous articles on the intersection of drug trafficking, law-breaking in addition to modern forms of armed conflict including: “Drugging Babylon: The Illegal Narcotics Trade And Nation-Building inwards Iraq”; “Criminal Sovereignty: Understanding North Korea’s Illicit International Activities”; in addition to “Cyberwar inwards the Underworld: Anonymous vs. Los Zetas inwards Mexico”.
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