Jihadist Insurgent Movements
This path-breaking collection of papers examines the phenomenon of jihadist insurgent movements in the Middle East and North, East, and West Africa. It argues that military and strategic analysts have paid insufficient attention to the phenomenon of jihadism in insurgent movements, partly due to a failure to take the role of religion sufficiently seriously in the ideological mobilisation of recruits by guerrilla movements stretching back to the era of national liberation after World War Two. Several essays in the collection examine Al Qaeda and ISIL as military as well as political movements while others assess Boko Haram in West Africa, Al Shabaab in Somalia, and jihadist movements in Libya. Additionally, some authors discuss the recruitment of foreign fighters and the longer-term terrorist threat posed by the existence of jihadist movements to security and ethnic relations in Europe.
Overall, this volume fills an important niche between studies that look at Islamic fundamentalism and global jihad at the international level and micro studies that look at movements locally. It poses the question whether jihadist insurgencies are serious revolutionary threats to global political stability or whether, like Soviet Russia after its initial revolutionary phase of the 1920s, they can be ultimately contained by the global political order. The volume sees these movements as continuing to evolve dynamically over the next few years suggesting that, even if ISIL is defeated, the movement that brought it into being will still exist and very probably morph into new movements.
Jihadist Insurgent Movements was originally published as a special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies.
Paul B. Rich is co-editor of Small Wars & Insurgencies and the author of several books and articles on insurgency, counter-insurgency, terrorism, and warlords. He has taught at the universities of Bristol, Warwick and Melbourne, and is currently completing a book entitled Cinema and Unconventional War: Insurgency, Terrorism and Special Operations on Screen, 19302015.
Richard Burchill is the Director of Research and Engagement for TRENDS: Research & Advisory. Previously he was with the Law School at the University of Hull, UK, where he was also Director of the McCoubrey Centre for International Law. He engages in teaching and consultancy work with international organisations and national governments.
Jihadist Insurgent Movements
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First published 2018
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Contents
Citation Information
The following chapters were originally published in Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Preface
Preface
Ahmed Al-Hamli
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 729732
Introduction
Introduction
Paul B. Rich
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 733742
Chapter 1
The Islamic State and the Return of Revolutionary Warfare
Craig Whiteside
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 743776
Chapter 2
How revolutionary are Jihadist insurgencies? The case of ISIL
Paul B. Rich
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 777799
Chapter 3
Global Jihad and Foreign Fighters
George Joff
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 800816
Chapter 4
A Fratricidal Libya: Making Sense of a Conflict Complex
Mikael Eriksson
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 817836
Chapter 5
Belgian and Dutch Jihadist Foreign Fighters (20122015): Characteristics, Motivations, and Roles in the War in Syria and Iraq
Edwin Bakker and Roel de Bont
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 837857
Chapter 6
Who Goes, Why, and With What Effects: The Problem of Foreign Fighters from Europe
Lasse Lindekilde, Preben Bertelsen and Michael Stohl
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 858877
Chapter 7
A Sectarian Jihad in Nigeria: The Case of Boko Haram
Marc-Antoine Prouse de Montclos
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 878895
Chapter 8
Operation Barkhane and Boko Haram: French Counterterrorism and Military Cooperation in the Sahel
Christopher Griffin
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 896913
Chapter 9
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Terrorism, insurgency, or organized crime?
Sergei Boeke
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 914936
Chapter 10
Shapeshifter of Somalia: Evolution of the Political Territoriality of Al-Shabaab
Bohumil Dobo
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 937957
Chapter 11
Jihadist insurgency and the prospects for peace and security
Richard Burchill
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 27, issue 5 (2016), pp. 958967
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