Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East Geopolitics, Ideology, and Strategy /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Yeşiltaş, Murat (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kardaş, Tuncay (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Terrorism.; Political violence.; Middle East-Politics and government.; Politics and war.; Peace.; Human rights.; International organization.; Terrorism and Political Violence.; Middle Eastern Politics.; Military and Defence Studies.; Conflict Studies.; Human Rights.; International Organization.

This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups. To understand the nature of transformation in the Middle Eastern geopolitical space, it provides new empirical and analytical insigh...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: The Phenomenon of Non-State Armed Actors and Patterns of Violent Geopolitics in the Middle East
• 2. The Transformation of the Regional Order and Non-state Armed Actors: Pathways to the Empowerment
• 3. Understanding "Foreign Policy" of the PYD/YPG as a Non-State Actor in Syria and Beyond
• 4. The Kurdish Fight Against ISIS: Realizing the Virtual Kurdistan through Factionalized Politics in a Fragmented Homeland
• 5. Global Politics of Image and the Making of a Legitimate Non-State Armed Actor: Syrian Kurds and 'the Secular West' in Kobane
• 6. From Al-Qaeda to Post Qaeda: The Evolution of ISIS
• 7. The New Middle East, ISIS and the 6th Revolt against the West
• 8. A New Controversial Actor in Post-ISIS Iraq: Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi (The Popular Mobilization Forces)
• 9. Operationalizing the Vision of Building a New Caliphate: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State (IS)
• 10. The Making of Foreign Fighters in the Middle East: Identity, Social Media and Virtual Radicalization
• 11. What the ISIS Crisis Means for the Future of the Middle East
• 12. Conclusion: The State of the Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East.