Islamic State from the Peripheries

Following text is focused on current conflict between the international community and so called Islamic State, the one of the biggest threat of (not only) Middle-East region. The involvement of many internal and external actors makes conflict in Iraq and Syria very complicated. Their goals differ from each other and that is the main reason the Islamic State still exists in very good shape. The main aim of this text is to explain and to analyze motives and goals of all relevant actors and sides of mentioned conflict and describe the way they affect its dynamics. Due to that it is possible to increase the knowledge of readers in such a chaotic, unclear and often misinterpreted situation in the Middle-East.

This essay details the difficulties in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. A number of co-varying factors will be considered, including the defining structural arrangements of ISIL and the ease with which they can perpetrate attacks in OECD states through advantages like technological anonymity.

2015

The competition between Al Qaeda and ISIL over the leadership of the global jihadist movement has already changed security parameters for the Middle East. Moreover, the presence of Al Qaeda and ISIL affiliates in the North Caucasus and Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge may pose a threat to the Caucasian states and Russia if worsening economic and social conditions ease the recruitment process of radical militants. This article focuses on the competitive struggle over resources and dominance between Al Qaeda and ISIL, and the implications for regional security in the Middle East and the Caucasus.

2020

At the dawn of its caliphate, the Islamic State’s global pretensions were limited to being the premier destination for foreign “travellers,” but we now understand that the caliphate was more than a destination: it was to be the foundation for a more rigorous transmission of global jihad. The collapse of its political project a!ords us an opportunity to reassess the Islamic State movement. Today its underground insurgency is the flagship of a political enterprise consisting of formal and aspiring a"liates dotting the Middle East, Africa and Asia while coordinating and inspiring terror operations abroad. We present a conceptual framework through which to understand how the Islamic State’s network of insurgent a"liates operates, based on an analysis of its attack data and primary sources. When we assess the bureaucratic fluidity of its structure in both time and place, combined with a wide ranging spectrum of relationships with a"liates and networks far and wide, the adh...

The Future of ISIS: Regional and International Implications, 2018

The U.S. has a number of core interests in the Middle East, including preventing the rise of a regional hegemon, nuclear proliferation, and significant terrorist attacks on the homeland, as well as ensuring access to oil and the security of regional allies. These interests provide a backdrop for the most prominent regional threat to emerge in recent years: ISIS. The good news is that ISIS poses little threat to the most crucial U.S. regional interests, such as preventing the rise of a regional hegemon and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The bad news is that ISIL still presents a significant threat to a number of other U.S. interests, such as the stability of regional allies and the prevention of terrorist attacks. Furthermore, the group’s unique structure makes it more difficult for the U.S. and its allies to defeat it, as ISIS is not simply a terrorist group. Rather, it is at once a state that has controlled and governed territory the size of Indiana, a transnational insurgency that seeks to spread chaos and overthrow numerous regimes across the region, and a revolutionary movement that works to reshape societies and spread an extreme ideology and apocalyptic vision. This chapter analyzes the threat ISIS poses to U.S. interests, as well as how to understand and defeat the group's three faces of state, insurgency, and revolutionary movement.

To defeat the new terrorist threat from ISIS, we need to follow the money trail. The Journal of International Security Affairs: Hotspots and Flashpoints Number 28, http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/number-28#sthash.2DWEObMB.dpuf

This report explores the probable impact of the Islamic State organisation (IS or Daesh) on the Eurasian region in general and the Caucasus and Central Asia in particular, with reference to the objectives of IS operations and the conditions under which such operations may take place. This analysis deals theoretically with imminent threats facing the twin regions of the Caucasus and Central Asia from the vantage point of their common security concerns grounded in their geographical proximity. The theoretical construct of a "regional security complex" is borrowed from the field of strategic studies to analyse these concerns with reference to factors that are most likely to lead to greater security linkages between the two regions.

Policy simplification of the USA is obvious when it has launched several air strikes over the ISIS controlled territory and complication arises when conspiracy reveals several documents on the US assistance to ISIS. To conceptualize the complexity of the emersion and continuation of Middle Eastern extremism, It is too much important to identify why Islamic state has developed rather how it has been. The USA has created a number of allies in the Middle East, i.e. Israel, Saudi Arabia and they have mutual dependence and interests either patronizing ISIS or countering ISIS. For more clarification, the trends in the US roles in the regional political strata has to analyze and it can be perceived after examining hundreds of conspiracies that ISIS is the by-product of the US policies in the Middle East.

A ny strategy to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) must begin with a clear-eyed assessment of the challenge at hand. ISIL's recent loss of territory represents progress in addressing that challenge, but does not change the fact that the United States and its allies confront a long-term global violent jihadist threat that preceded ISIL and will outlive ISIL. Our recommended strategy focuses on addressing ISIL as a transregional threat. The nature of the threat suggests the need to prioritize the security of Americans in the homeland, but does not imply placing the United States on a continuous war footing. Rather, U.S. government actions overseas should focus on disrupting the transregional network supporting ISIL. Practically speaking, this means increasing the operational hurdles for terrorists both inside and outside the United States, giving more attention and resources to intelligence and law enforcement, and emphasiz-ing airstrikes and Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids on ISIL leadership and training camps in Iraq and Syria. Figure 1 presents an overview of our proposed counter-ISIL strategy.

NDCP Policy Brief, 2015

The aim of this two-part policy brief is to discuss how the rise of ISIS may impact Philippine national security. Specifically, these two articles seek to discuss the following: first, the capabilities of ISIS; second, the potential security challenges to the country posed by ISIS; and third, some policy considerations in Philippine counter-terrorism efforts vis-à-vis the ascendance of ISIS as an international terrorist threat. http://www.ndcp.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/publications/The%20Islamic%20State%20of%20Iraq%20and%20Syria%20Part%201.pdf