Abstract
The West has not found a way of combating the rise of Islamic extremism. Its latest manifestation is the Islamic State in Iraq or Syria (ISIS), also known as the Islamic State (IS). This phenomenon could have been ignored had it been just an ideology. However, the militant Islamists are not only competing for geographical space in which the West and some of the Muslim states have interest. They are also destabilizing the Muslim communities that have come into existence in Europe, North America and Australia. While many observers believe that al Qaeda is solely focused on attacking the West, it has devoted most of its efforts to waging insurgencies in various parts of the Muslim world. This is the key to understanding how it has been able to regenerate repeatedly over the past decade and a half. Al Qaeda and the IS draw would-be terrorists from the larger pool of paramilitary forces fighting to install Islamic governments in the Muslim world to be directed by a central caliphate.
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Burki, S.J. (2017). The Rise of Extremist Islam. In: Rising Powers and Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59815-8_8
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