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Record Nr.

UNINA9910275024903321

Autore

Ganguly Sumit

Titolo

The Future of ISIS : Regional and International Implications / / edited by Feisal al-Istrabadi and Sumit Ganguly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington DC, : Brookings Institution Press, 2018

Washington, D.C. : , : Brookings Institution, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

0-8157-3217-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 260 pages)

Disciplina

363.325

Soggetti

Intelligence service - United States

Electronic books.

Middle East Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Middle East

Middle East History 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Ideology and Externalities -- Introduction: An End to ISIS? -- Apocalypse Soon" Revolutionary Revanchism of ISIS -- Part II: Intelligence Failures -- Not Your Father's Intelligence Failure: Why the Intelligence Community Failed to Anticipate the Rise of ISIS -- When Do You Give It a Name? Theoretical Observations about the ISIS Intelligence Failure -- Part III: Local Actors -- Syria and Iraq: ISIS and Other Actors in Historical Context -- Islamic State-Khurasan Province -- Part IV: Joint Action: U.S. and Regional Powers -- International and Regional Responses: An Appraisal -- Regional Constraints on the U.S. Confrontation of ISIS -- Part V: U.S. Interests -- Territorial Havens and the Risk of Complex Terrorist Attacks in the United States -- A State, an Insurgency, and a Revolution: Understanding and Defeating the Three Faces of ISIS -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines how the terrorist group the Islamic State (known also in the West as ISIS or ISIL) will affect not only the Middle East but the global



order and what the global community can do to counter its influence"--Provided by the publisher