Violence-producing cynamics of fragile states: how state fragility in Iraq contributed to the emergence of Islamic State
In the post-Cold War era, “Jihadi-Salafi Groups” (JSGs) have emerged as significant “violence-making” organizations. Almost all JSGs have emerged in highly fragile states. The literature on the state fragility-terrorism nexus, by focusing exclusively on whether state fragility is a cause of terroris...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 6, Pages: 1245-1267 |
| Further subjects: | B
International Relations
B Islamism B Violence B Islamic State B Iraq B state fragility B International security |
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| Summary: | In the post-Cold War era, “Jihadi-Salafi Groups” (JSGs) have emerged as significant “violence-making” organizations. Almost all JSGs have emerged in highly fragile states. The literature on the state fragility-terrorism nexus, by focusing exclusively on whether state fragility is a cause of terrorism or not, has failed to consider the broader impact of state fragility on the emergence of JSGs. The role of state fragility as a condition of the emergence of JSGs, in particular, is mostly overlooked in the literature. This paper, adding state fragility as a condition variable to the causal model of the rise of JSGs, fills this gap. The empirical basis of this research includes a single case study examining the relationship between state fragility in the post-Saddam Iraq and the formation of Islamic State (IS). By adding a new variable to the causal model of the rise of IS, this research makes a strong within-case inference concerning this case. Although the empirical basis of this research includes a single case study, the analytical framework developed in this paper has possible implications for studying a larger number of Jihadi-Salafi groups. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 20.01.2023 Published online: 04 Jun 2018 |
| Physical Description: | Diagramme |
| ISSN: | 1556-1836 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Terrorism and political violence
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2018.1463914 |