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Nationalist Jāhiliyyah and the Flag of the Two Crusaders, or: ISIS, Sovereignty, and the “Owl of Minerva / Mabon, Simon

Mabon, Simon	Journal Article
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This article argues that by understanding Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) state-building processes we are able to understand how ISIS has developed while also developing a united citizenship body built from people in Iraq and Syria and those making hijra. The fragmentation of Iraq and Syria resulted in conditions that would prove conducive to the group's expansion and identifying these conditions is imperative to understanding Sunni extremism in the Middle East. The article argues that ISIS builds citizenship in two ways: first, by developing asabiyya—group feeling—among Sunni and second, by securitizing the Shi'a threat. Identifying and engaging with the concepts of sovereignty and citizenship helps to develop much stronger policy responses.

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Sovereignty ; ISIS ; Owl of Minerva ; Nationalist Jāhiliyyah

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Owl of Minerva / Kortunov, Andrey

Kortunov, Andrey	Journal Article
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The European Union Global Strategy belongs to the class of documents that are easy to criticize and hard to defend. It is clearly a fine-tuned compromise between many states, institutions and political views. As a compromise, the EUGS is doomed to be somewhat declaratory, ambivalent and even, at times, inconsistent and shallow. One should recognise the commitment and the courage of Federica Mogherini, who made an uneasy and seemingly counterintuitive decision to release the EUGS right after the Brexit vote in UK. Everybody inside and outside of Brussels would have understood if the release had been postponed by a couple of months; today the EUSG has become the target of many harsh reviews and ironic comments.

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European Union ; Global strategy ; Owl of Minerva

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