Resumen de The real danger of the islamic state
- español
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el fenómeno del llamado Estado Islámico en Irak y Levante (al-daula al-islamiya fi al-‘iraq wa al-sham). Se concluye que es tanto una organización yihadista con objetivos globales, utilizando el terror y la propaganda sofisticada para difundir su ideología como una entidad “para-estatal” que emplea considerables recursos administrativos y militares para controlar y gobernar una base territorial claramente definida en el este de Siria y norte-oeste de Irak.
- English
This paper aims to analyze the phenomenon of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (al-daula al-islamiya fi al-‘iraq wa al-sham) taking note of its parallel and complimentary, but distinctive facets: it is both a jihadi organization with global goals, relying on terror and sophisticated propaganda to spread its ideology and a para-state entity efficiently using considerable military and administrative resources to control and govern a coherent and reasonably well-defined territorial base in Sunni-inhabited areas of Eastern Syria and North-Western Iraq
