Search Result

Srl

Item

ID: 170795

Ideology of the Islamic State / Sarkar, Saurav

Sarkar, Saurav	Journal Article
	0 Rating(s) & 0 Review(s)

Summary/Abstract

The Islamic State (IS) terror group continues to operate and endure five years after its founding in 2014 and after the loss of its caliphate in March this year. The IS has also endured the killings of its Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in October and other senior leaders in the last few years. A factor in the resilience of the IS is the nature of its organisational structure – which is quite ambiguous, with no clear hierarchy – that is not severely affected by leadership decapitations or territorial losses. However, a larger force behind its survival is its ideological appeal and emphasis on using violence to achieve its ends. The IS has invested a lot of resources and expertise in propagating and micromanaging its ideological message across the jihadist landscape. The ideology of the IS – a mix of Salafi-jihadism, Sunni extremism and a nihilistic outlook – has found resonance among radical sympathisers worldwide and had managed to bridge the gap between jihadist thought and action by establishing a functioning Islamic caliphate in 2014, something that no other Islamist terror group had been able to do

Key Words

Islamic State ; Islamist Terrorism ; Jihadist ; Islamist Terrorist ; Islamist Terrorist Groups

In Basket

Export

ID: 106615

Taking hand-outs or going it alone: nationalization versus privatization in the funding of islamist terrorist groups / Geltzer, Joshua Alexander

Geltzer, Joshua Alexander	Journal Article
	0 Rating(s) & 0 Review(s)

Publication

2011.

Summary/Abstract

This article explores the consequences for the funding of Islamist terrorist groups of nationalization, in the form of state sponsorship, versus privatization, in the form of autonomous financing. The article begins by examining the evolution in terrorist groups' sources of funding from state sponsorship to autonomous activity, then turns to the benefits and costs to terrorist groups of relying on state sponsors. The article then analyzes the benefits and costs of procuring funding autonomously. Finally, the article weighs those benefits and costs in relation to a terrorist group's emphasis on enhancing its constituency versus pursuing its agenda. The article's central conclusion is that nationalization tends to boost a terrorist group's constituency while privatization tends to bolster a group's agenda. Determining which advantage takes priority depends on the relative importance to a given terrorist group at a particular time of enhancing its constituency versus advancing its agenda.

Key Words

Terrorists ; Privatization ; State Sponsorship ; Funding ; Nationalization ; Islamist Terrorist Groups ;
Autonomous Financing

Links

'Full Text'

In Basket

Export