Tese de Mestrado em Relações Internacionais apresentada à Ca' Foscari University of Venice, tendo como orientadores Sara De Vido, Fabrizio Marrella. Ficheiro de 0,99 MB em formato PDF (109 p.).

Introduction. Chapter I: Origin of the phenomenon. 1.1. ISIS, ISIL, IS or Daesh. 1.2. Al-Qaeda and Jabhat Al-Nusra. 1.3. The blowback phenomenon. Chapter II: Qualification of foreign terrorist fighters in international law. 2.1 FTF and IHL: FTF as non-state actors involved in armed conflicts zone. 2.1.1 Overview of international humanitarian law. 2.1.2. International armed conflict. 2.1.3. Non-international armed conflict. 2.1.4. The status of FTFs under IHL. 2.2. FTFs and terrorism: FTFs’ involvement in terrorist activities. 2.2.1 Attempts to define the concept of terrorism: a controversial issue in the international community. 2.2.2.The US-declared “war on terror”. 2.3. Overview of international counterterrorism law. 2.4. A fragile background for FTFs’ terrorist actions. Chapter III: Preventive and repressive measures. 3.1. Measures adopted by the UN security council. 3.1.1. UN Resolution 2170/2014 and the topic of support to terrorist groups. 3.1.2. UN Resolution 2178/2014 on foreign terrorist fighters. 3.1.3. UN Resolution 2178: a controversial resolution. 3.1.4. Resolution 2249/2015: a focus on ISIL. 3.2 Measures of the European Union in response to the foreign terrorist fighter phenomenon. 3.2.1. Response after the terrorist attacks in Europe and lines of action. 3.2.2 The complex relationship between the new countermeasures and the founding principle of EU. Conclusion. List of abbreviations. Bibliography.