RT Book
T1 After the Caliphate: the Islamic State and the future of the terrorist diaspora
A1 Clarke, Colin P.
LA English
PP Cambridge Medford, MA
PB Polity
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1031359346
AB In 2014, the declaration of the Islamic State caliphate was hailed as a major victory by the global jihadist movement. But it was short-lived. Three years on, the caliphate was destroyed, leaving its surviving fighters - many of whom were foreign recruits - to retreat and scatter across the globe. So what happens now? Is this the beginning of the end of IS? Or can it adapt and regroup after the physical fall of the caliphate? In this timely analysis, terrorism expert Colin P. Clarke takes stock of IS - its roots, its evolution, and its monumental setbacks - to assess the road ahead. The caliphate, he argues, was an anomaly. The future of the global jihadist movement will look very much like its past – with peripatetic and divided groups of militants dispersing to new battlefields, from North Africa to Southeast Asia, where they will join existing civil wars, establish safe havens and sanctuaries, and seek ways of conducting spectacular attacks in the West that inspire new followers. In this fragmented and atomized form, Clarke cautions, IS could become even more dangerous and challenging for counterterrorism forces, as its splinter groups threaten renewed and heightened violence across the globe.
NO Literaturangaben, Register
CN HV6433.I722
SN 9781509533879
SN 9781509533886
K1 Internationaler Terrorismus
K1 Terrorist
K1 Dschihadismus
K1 Militanz
K1 Islam
K1 Djihad
K1 Staat
K1 Zusammenbruch
K1 Entwicklung
K1 Tendenz
K1 Diaspora : Religion
K1 Naher Osten
K1 Mittlerer Osten
K1 Nordafrika