LEADER 03741nam 22005895 450 001 9910255307203321 005 20240724132625.0 010 $a9783319307190 010 $a3319307193 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-30719-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000685983 035 $a(EBL)4530170 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-30719-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4530170 035 $a(Perlego)3492007 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000685983 100 $a20160519d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIslamic State and the Coming Global Confrontation /$fby Hussein Solomon 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (139 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9783319307183 311 08$a3319307185 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of Abbreviations -- Chapter One: The Rise of the Islamic State -- Chapter Two: Accounting for Islamic State's Appeal and Resilience -- Chapter Three: Responding to Islamic State and Getting it Wrong -- Chapter Four: Fighting Islamic State: A Call to Action -- Chapter Five: Gazing into the Crystal Ball -- Bibliography -- Index. . 330 $aThis book analyzes the origins and organizational structure of Islamic State (IS), examining its military triumphs and success in securing new recruits via social media. From its base in Iraq and Syria, IS has spread globally with 17 regional affiliates from Indonesia to Nigeria and sleeper cells in at least 60 countries, capable of atrocities like the Paris attack. To understand the threat of IS, this book explores its organizational structure and underlying ideology, and implications for Western efforts to attack the leadership of IS. The ways IS has grown by swiftly adapting its military strategy, developing creative forms of funding and efforts to win hearts and minds of locals are identified. The author highlights how the competing individual national interests between the Western military alliance and local partners have served to strengthen IS. With its ideology spreading ever further, this book warns of the looming violent confrontation between democratic and Islamist forces. This volume speaks to academics in international relations, security studies and strategic studies, policy-makers and interested parties. Hussein Solomon is Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Governance at the University of the Free State, South Africa and is a Senior Research Associate of the Israeli-based Research on Islam and Muslims in Africa (RIMA). His most recent book was entitled Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: Fighting Insurgency from Al Shabaab, Ansar Dine and Boko Haram (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). 606 $aTerrorism 606 $aPolitical violence 606 $aMiddle East$xPolitics and government 606 $aPeace 606 $aTerrorism and Political Violence 606 $aMiddle Eastern Politics 606 $aPeace and Conflict Studies 615 0$aTerrorism. 615 0$aPolitical violence. 615 0$aMiddle East$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aPeace. 615 14$aTerrorism and Political Violence. 615 24$aMiddle Eastern Politics. 615 24$aPeace and Conflict Studies. 676 $a320 700 $aSolomon$b Hussein$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0788882 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255307203321 996 $aIslamic state and the coming global confrontation$91758915 997 $aUNINA