| ID | 143030 |
| Title Proper | Defining ISIS |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Fishman, Ben |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Looking back today, it is difficult to assess the state of the Middle East in summer 2014, before fighters from the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) poured across the thinly guarded Iraqi–Syrian border and quickly seized a huge chunk of Iraq. To a certain extent, the chaos that had gripped the region since the onset of the Arab Spring in 2011 was beginning to settle. Syria’s civil war continued to rage, but Egypt’s experiment with Islamist rule had run its course, and the United States and its P5 partners were on the way to a breakthrough in nuclear diplomacy with Iran. But the ISIS blitzkrieg into Iraq signalled the emergence of a new force in the Middle East – a hybrid organisation that combined terrorist tactics, military precision, religious ideology, and technological and bureaucratic innovation. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 58, No.1; Feb-Mar 2016: p.179-188 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 58 No 1 |
| Key Words | Terrorism ; Counter Terrorism ; ISIS ; Terrorism & Security |