Summary
Loretta Napoleoni: The Rise of Islamism
The Islamic State and the Redrawing of Borders in the Middle East
Since the late 1990s and the jihadist dream of its then terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, IS, ISIL or Al-Qaeda in Iraq) has expanded rapidly, redrawing national borders across the Middle East, appropriating a territory larger than the United Kingdom and subjecting
it to its interpretation of Sharia law.
The Rise of Islamism by the world-renowned terrorism expert Loretta Napoleoni penetrates below the surface and points to the preoccupation of the Western media with descriptions of ISIS as a group of bandits who, well, have gone, while at the same time this organization is actually developing a new model of nation building. ISIS uses modern technology
to recruit new members and collect financial resources with the aim of restoring the original caliphate somewhat adapted to the 21st century. And it's not just another terrorist network, but a truly dangerous enemy.
As Napoleoni writes: "Ignoring these facts is more than mere deception - it's dangerous. Knowing your enemy is clearly becoming the most important sentence in the fight against terrorism."
Loretta Napoleoni is the author of the international bestsellers Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality, Terrorist Business (Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism) and Maonomics. He writes for La Stampa, La Repubblica and El Pais.
He is a world-renowned expert on international relations, economics and terrorism. It gathered a working group of world statesmen whose goal was to devise a new strategy to prevent the financing of terrorist networks. After a Fulbright scholarship, she earned a master's degree in international relations and economics, and then a doctorate in terrorism at the London School of Economics.
She lives in London and Montana.
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