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Misoverestimating ISIS [Recurso electrónico] PDF : comparisons with Al-Qaeda

By: Material type: ArticlePublication details: Alex P. Schmid 2016ISSN:
  • 2334-3745
Subject(s): Online resources: In: Perspectives on Terrorism Perspectives on Terrorism . -- Vol. 10 No. 4 (Aug. 2016) 10 p.Summary: An examination of the ISIS phenomenon, comparing it with that generated a decade and a half earlier by alQaeda. Although the vicious group certainly presents a threat to the people under its control and although it can contribute damagingly to the instability in the Middle East that has followed serial interventions there by the American military, it scarcely presents a challenge to global security. Moreover, the group is in very considerable decline in its key areas, Syria and particularly Iraq. As with al-Qaeda, however, the unwarranted fear and alarm ISIS has generated is likely to persist even if the group is effectively extinguished as a physical force in the Middle East.
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An examination of the ISIS phenomenon, comparing it with that generated a decade and a half earlier by alQaeda. Although the vicious group certainly presents a threat to the people under its control and although it can contribute damagingly to the instability in the Middle East that has followed serial interventions there by the American military, it scarcely presents a challenge to global security. Moreover, the group is in very considerable decline in its key areas, Syria and particularly Iraq. As with al-Qaeda, however, the unwarranted fear and alarm ISIS has generated is likely to persist even if the group is effectively extinguished as a physical force in the Middle East.

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