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Summary:

"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.

Table of Contents:

• Ideology and externalities
• Introduction : an end to ISIS? / Feisal A.R. al-Istrabadi and Sumit Ganguly
• "Apocalypse soon" : revolutionary revanchism of ISIS / Nukhet Sandal
• Intelligence failures
• Not your father's intelligence failure : why the intelligence community failed to anticipate the rise of ISIS / Erik J. Dahl
• When do you give it a name?
• Theoretical observations about the ISIS intelligence failure / James J. Wirtz
• Local actors
• Syria and Iraq : ISIS and other local actors in historical context / Kevin Martin
• Islamic State-Khurasan Province / Amin Tarzi
• Joint action : U.S. and regional powers
• International and regional responses : an appraisal / Hussein Banai
• Regional constraints on the U.S. confrontation of ISIS / Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi
• U.S. interests
• ISIS's territorial sanctuary and the risk of complex terrorist attacks in the United States / Risa Brooks
• A state, an insurgency, and a revolution : understanding and defeating the three faces of ISIS / Peter Krause.

Contributors:

Ganguly, Sumit , editor

Al-Istrabadi, Feisal , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Future of ISIS (Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, 2018 — ISBN 9780815732167; LCCN 2018012373)

Subjects:

IS (Organization)

Middle East — History — 21st century

Intelligence service — United States

United States — Foreign relations — Middle East

Middle East — Foreign relations — United States

2000-2099

Diplomatic relations

Intelligence service

Middle East

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 260 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HV6433.I722 T444 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780815732174 (electronic bk.)
0815732171 (electronic bk.)
9780815732167 (electronic bk.)
0815732163 (electronic bk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018018368

OCLC Numbers:

1031421363