Asad Zaidi

Asad Zaidi is a researcher and former postgraduate student. He writes on International Relations of the Middle East and Diaspora politics.

The Islamic State and the global Great Game

The unravelling of Iraqi society set the context for the emergence of the Islamic State-led insurgency in Iraq. But the role played by IS is a byproduct of the flows of capital and ideology in a much wider theatre of power.

By Asad Zaidi

/ 25 Sep 2014