#  Foreign Fighters and Vicarious Identity: The Georgian National Legion in Ukraine 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 4, 2026** 

 12:30PM - 02:00PM EDT 

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 **IN-PERSON**  

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CGIS-South Building | Room S354

 

 

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### Full event information may be found [here](https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/foreign-fighters-and-vicarious-identity-georgian-national-legion-ukraine). 

Why do foreign fighters join wars in other countries? Moving beyond characterizations of foreign fighters as either profit-driven mercenaries or transnational terrorists, this event presents a theory of foreign fighters motivated by ontological security and vicarious identification.

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#### This event is organized by [The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies](https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/) at Harvard University and co-sponsored by the [Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute](https://www.huri.harvard.edu/).

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