Here to Stay: Foreign Fighters & The Duration of Civil Conflict

by Meghan Mcnicholas

Contemporary conflict studies has largely focused on foreign fighters and civil conflict as two entities independent of one another; the two concepts remain largely unlinked in current literature. My senior thesis attempts to explore one particular facet of this unexplored relationship: duration. My project uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify any links between foreign fighter engagement in civil conflict and the total duration of said intrastate violence.

Major: 
International Politics & French
Exhibition Category: 
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Exhibition Format: 
Poster Presentation
Campus: 
University Park
Faculty Sponsor: 
Douglas Lemke
Poster Number: 
165