Understanding the Findings: Country Contexts

This chapter introduces the reader to the security challenges of each of the countries that are the subject of in-depth research: Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. It explains why these countries matter in a global context and considers the ways in which countries frame their key security challenges, with a focus on gender and extremism in each. In particular, this chapter addresses the ways in which gender is present—or absent—in countries’ policies and interventions. It also sets out the current responses to the issue of Daesh returners.