The study focuses on the motivations of western foreign fighters from the extreme right-wing milieu. It also assesses to what extent these individuals pose a security threat.

IWT is one of the most valuable forms of international organised crime. Increasingly, the vast profits generated by IWT are captured not by small-time operators, but by highly organised criminal and extremist networks mainly headquartered in Europe and Asia.

Following the 2019 fall of ISIS’s so-called “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria, the repatriation of female FTFs has led to a series of challenges.

Throughout 2019, GLOBSEC, within the scope of a new project developed in cooperation with CEP, mapped out and thematically analysed the pathways to jihadism of the 300+ individuals included in the original dataset.

The financial structures of violent right-wing extremist organisations and actors in Germany are broad and multifaceted. Currently, there is a lack of up-to-date and in-depth analyses of the various financial strategies employed by these groups and individuals as well as their different sources of income.

Die Finanzierung gewaltorientierter rechtsextremer Organisationen und Akteur:innen in Deutschland ist divers und breit gefächert.

This policy brief provides a risk assessment of the potential threats posed by violence-oriented extremists in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war once they return to their prior countries of residence/homeland.