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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Islamic State and the global Great GameThe unravelling of Iraqi society set the context for the emergence of the Islamic State-led insurgency in Iraq. But...
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Published in: openSecurityObama's dysfunctional coalition of the unwillingThe US call for "the broadest coalition of nations" to fight ISIS is simply an invocation of past moral crusades....
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGenealogies of empire: the Islamic State as a western symptomThe butcher of Foley has in a sense defied the genealogies of empire and the 'be with us or against us' mentality...
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Published in: HomeInto the third Iraq war
Washington's strategy to defeat the Islamic State has the same deep flaws that marked earlier phases of the "war on terror".
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTripoli airstrikes
These airstrikes demonstrate new fault lines in the Arab world: between Arab conservative regimes, their Islamist...
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Published in: 50.50From 1990s Algeria to 9/11 and ISIS: understanding the history of "Homo islamicus fundamentalensis"
Today’s brutal jihadists like “Islamic State” follow in the footsteps of fundamentalists who have afflicted Muslim...
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Published in: HomeIslamic State: from the insideThe west must understand the Islamic State's worldview, and accept its own failings, if it is to meet the challenge.
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Published in: HomeHow America made ISIS
The American record in these last 13 years is a shameful one. Do it again should not be an option.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA new kind of freedom born in terrorThe revolution which has been taking place across Rojava (literally, ‘Western Kurdistan’), where three cantons were...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Governorate of Homs: the Islamic State’s new fiefdom?The Islamic State (IS), has been able to assert its dominance over wide areas of Iraq and Syria. The Province of...
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Published in: openSecurityWhy Washington's war on terror failed: the underrated Saudi connection
So far, Washington has successfully escaped blame for the rise of ISIS. In fact, it has created a situation in which...
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Published in: HomeAmerica and Islamic State: mission creeping?
The United States is increasing support of its Iraqi and Kurdish allies and escalating attacks on its jihadist...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe ISIS twitterati and the online jihad
ISIS and Al-Qaeda—which includes ISIS rivals the Al-Nusra Front in Syria—are competing over the same ‘talent pool’...
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Published in: HomeIslamic State, Iraq, America: a new front
A military escalation in Iraq depends on Washington's assessment of the Islamic State's power and intentions. But...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA lasting presence for IS in Iraq and Syria: interview with Romain Caillet
On 29 June, after the spectacular takeover of Mosul and other Iraqi cities, the Islamic State (IS) declared a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaISIS, ‘Real’ Islam, and the Christians of Mosul
Led by the self-proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (b.1971), ISIS promotes itself in Iraq and globally as a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIraq crisis: divide-and-rule in defence of a neoliberal political economyThe roots of the most recent crisis in Iraq can be traced to the US-led invasion of 2003 and western meddling in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMosul, Maliki and ISIS: the view today from Erbil
It is surely not overly pessimistic to anticipate tension between Kurd and Sunni Arab in the months and years to...
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Published in: HomeThe Islamic state in contextAlmost by default, the swelling numbers of young Arabs, especially in the culturally vibrant centres of the Arab...
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