ISIS: Its Emergence and ways to Combat it
Almaghlooth, Muhannad
Almaghlooth, Muhannad
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The thesis deals with understanding the emergence of the terrorist state ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and its difference from previous terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda. It will also attempt to answer the following questions: how did ISIS manage to spread in important territories in Syria and Iraq? Who finds ISIS and how does it promote its aesthetics of horror globally? How it does it make use of the most technological postmodernist aspects of the media to spread terror? The thesis will also deal with understanding the theoretical and academic explanations to its emergence so that it can offer suggested solutions to ways in which we can combat it. One of the main questions that the thesis poses: is it enough for the United States and the Western world to combat ISIS by using military force, or are there more effective and more humanitarian ways in which this terrorist group can be combatted? The thesis also poses this question: how far is the United States hegemony responsible in creating those terrorist groups that have excessive hatred for the West, socially the United States? In other words, what are the lessons that the United States can learn from the emergence of such a threatening terrorist group?The thesis deals with understanding the emergence of the terrorist state ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and its difference from previous terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda. It will also attempt to answer the following questions: how did ISIS manage to spread in important territories in Syria and Iraq? Who finds ISIS and how does it promote its aesthetics of horror globally? How it does it make use of the most technological postmodernist aspects of the media to spread terror? The thesis will also deal with understanding the theoretical and academic explanations to its emergence so that it can offer suggested solutions to ways in which we can combat it. One of the main questions that the thesis poses: is it enough for the United States and the Western world to combat ISIS by using military force, or are there more effective and more humanitarian ways in which this terrorist group can be combatted? The thesis also poses this question: how far is the United States hegemony responsible in creating those terrorist groups that have excessive hatred for the West, socially the United States? In other words, what are the lessons that the United States can learn from the emergence of such a threatening terrorist group?
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Thesis (B.A. in International Affairs)--John Cabot University, Spring 2017.
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2017
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Islam and politics, Arab countries, IS (Organization), Middle East, Terrorism
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Almaghlooth, Muhannad. "ISIS: Its Emergence and ways to Combat it". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2017.