Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
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File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2015
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Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
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ISBN : 9781981399895
ISIS: defining the enemy : hearing before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, April 29, 2015.
Author : Nonproliferat Subcommittee on Terrorism
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2015-10-07
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ISBN : 9781517689636
Nobody seems to like ISIS. Yet, despite everyone being against ISIS, we are not winning the war against ISIS. One of the reasons is because it is not clear we understand the group very well. ISIS is a radical Islamic terrorist group. The White House doesn't really like to talk about this but we cannot defeat ISIS if we do not understand who they are. It is critical that we know what its goals are, how it seeks to achieve those goals. Even if the White House doesn't think ISIS is Islamic, ISIS does. ISIS explains its actions and justifies them through its interpretation of the Islamic law and Islamic writings. This philosophy is reflected in its daily actions and its deadly actions. According to ISIS ideals, it also thinks the roughly 200 million Shi'a around the world should also die. Same with the heads of state of every Muslim country that has elevated man-made law above Sharia law. What we need is a deeper understanding of what ISIS believes and to use this understanding to defeat ISIS and its philosophy.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Islamic fundamentalism
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2015*
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Release : 2015
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Author : Emily Crawford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191667943
Over the past twenty-five years, significant changes in the conduct of wars have increasingly placed civilians in traditional military roles - employing civilians to execute drone strikes, the 'targeted killing' of suspected terrorists, the use of private security contractors in combat zones, and the spread of cyber attacks. Under the laws of armed conflict, civilians cannot be targeted unless they take direct part in hostilities. Once civilians take action, they become targets. This book analyses the complex question of how to identify just who those civilians are. Identifying the Enemy examines the history of civilian participation in armed conflict and how the law has responded to such action. It asks the crucial question: what is 'direct participation in hostilities'? The book slices through the attempts to untie this Gordian knot, and shows that the changing nature of warfare has called into question the very foundation of the civilian/military dichotomy that is at the heart of the law of armed conflict.
Author : Fawaz A. Gerges
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691211922
An authoritative introduction to ISIS—now expanded and revised to bring events up to the present The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and distinctive characteristic was its capacity to build governing institutions and a theologically grounded national identity. What explains the rise of ISIS and the caliphate, and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world’s leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions. Moving beyond journalistic accounts, Fawaz Gerges provides a clear and compelling explanation of the deeper conditions that fuel ISIS. This new edition brings the story of ISIS to the present, covering key events—from the military defeat of its territorial state to the death of its leader al-Baghdadi—and analyzing how the ongoing Syrian, Iraqi, and Saudi-Iranian conflict could lead to ISIS’s revival.
Author : Michael Stohl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2017-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520294165
This publication is part of the Constructions of Terrorism Research Project being carried out through a partnership between TRENDS Research & Advisory, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Author : Jack McDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190862726
President Obama was elected on an anti-war platform, yet targeted killings have increased under his command of the 'War on Terror'. The US thinks of itself as upholding the rule of international law and spreading democracy, yet such targeted killings have been widely decried as extra-judicial violations of human rights. This book examines these paradoxes, arguing that they are partially explained by the application of existing legal standards to transnational wars. Critics argue that the kind of war the US claims to be waging - transnational armed conflict - doesn't actually exist. McDonald analyses the concept of transnational war and the legal interpretations that underpin it, and argues that the Obama administration's adherence to the rule of law produces a status quo of violence that is in some ways more disturbing than the excesses of the Bush administration. America's interpretations of sovereignty and international law shape and constitute war itself, with lethal consequences for the named and anonymous persons that it unilaterally defines as participants. McDonald's analysis helps us understand the social and legal construction of legitimate violence in warfare, and the relationship between legal opinions formed in US government departments and acts of violence half a world away.
