The french government and the new challenges of the coming back of french jihadists : balancing between punishment and de-radicalization
Μεταπτυχιακή διπλωματική εργασία
Συγγραφέας
Hollander, Lea
Ημερομηνία
2018-10-29Επιβλέπων
Ρούσσος, ΣωτήριοςΘεματική επικεφαλίδα
Terrorism ; National security ; JihadΛέξεις κλειδιά
Foreign fighters ; Jihad ; Terrorism ; De-radicalization ; RehabilitationΠερίληψη
The aim of this Thesis is to focus on how governments can react towards the coming
back of the foreign fighters from Syria and Iraq, and the French case will illustrate
one of the possible state’s behavior. Our central research question is stated as follows:
What are the possible policies a state can implement in order to respond to the
returnees crisis and to ensure its citizens’ security ?
States are facing a new threat since the collapse of ISIS, the foreign fighters are
starting to come back, and the authorities have to find quick solutions to face this
challenge.
Governments are choosing between hard and soft measures or, to put in other words,
between punishment and rehabilitation. Obviously, states are trying to find a balance
between these two approaches, in order to fight the roots of the problem, namely
radicalization, to ensure the security of the state, and also to respond to the pressure of
the public opinion.