What did you do in their war? Roles and agency in transnational support for armed movements

In the majority of armed conflicts since the end of the Cold War, at least one side has mobilised support from non-state actors located abroad. To contribute to scholarly knowledge on these transnational dimensions of violent political conflict, in the hope of assisting efforts towards peace and security, this thesis provides a new theoretical understanding of roles and agency in transnational support for armed movements. It empirically grounds this contribution through a mixed methods case study of Islamic State’s mobilisation of transnational support from within Australia between 2013 and 2018.