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

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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.

This event is organized by The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

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