Misoverestimating ISIS: comparisons with Al-Qaeda

Title: Misoverestimating ISIS: comparisons with Al-Qaeda
Creator: Mueller, John; Stewart, Mark G.
Relation: Perspectives on Terrorism Vol. 10, Issue 4, p. 32-41
Relation: http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/issue/view/59
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Lowell
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: An examination of the ISIS phenomenon, comparing it with that generated a decade and a half earlier by al-Qaeda. 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.
Subject: ISIS; al-Qaeda; terrorism; Islamic State; public opinion
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1342834
Identifier: uon:29043
Identifier: ISSN:2334-3745
Rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Language: eng
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