Countering The Virtual Caliphate

Author : Committee on Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539112039

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Countering the Virtual Caliphate by Committee on Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives Pdf

The explosion of slick and professional ISIS videos online is so great that many people are referring to it as the virtual caliphate. Within seconds, ISIS can reach a global audience using popular social media sites, disseminating hateful propaganda to recruit new fighters and promote its extreme ideology. More and more, the virtual caliphate is calling on its followers not necessarily to go to Syria or Iraq or Libya now but to take up arms and attack where they are at home. "The smallest action you do"-in their words-"the smallest action you do in their homeland is better and more enduring to us than what you would if you were with us." That is the message being pounded into would-be jihadists and it is a message that is being pounded into many Americans. We know that terrorists consume Islamist propaganda over the Internet. The attacks in Brussels, San Bernardino, Orlando, Paris are tied to ISIS' online efforts based on the web sites visited by those undertaking these terrorist attacks. Indeed, ISIS' online dominance is just as critical to that organization as the large amounts of territory that it controls in Iraq or Syria or Libya or other training bases that they have set up.

Author : United States. Congress,Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1976149436

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Countering the Virtual Caliphate by United States. Congress,Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Countering the virtual Caliphate : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, second session, June 23, 2016.

Author : House of Representatives
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540704785

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Countering the Virtual Caliphate by House of Representatives Pdf

The Internet is awash with terrorist propaganda and this includes horrific videos of beheadings, of firing squads, of torture of men, women, and children. ISIS operates a vast network of online recruiters; online propagandists. The mission of these individuals is to expand their ranks across multiple continents, including our continent, including right here at home. So this is on the Internet, what would be called their "virtual caliphate." They use popular media sites, through which ISIS can reach a global audience. Once lured in, they communicate privately on platforms with sophisticated encryption, encouraging tens of thousands-including many from Western countries-to travel to Syria, Iraq, Libya and join the fight. Increasingly, the virtual caliphate is calling on its followers, not to trek to Syria, Iraq, Libya, or other terrorist camps that they have set up, but instead to attack where they are, at home. That is the new messaging. Orlando is a grim example of that. ISIS' online presence is just as critical to the organization as the large amounts of territory that it controls.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Caliphate
ISBN : OCLC:1251951772

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Countering the Virtual Caliphate by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress,Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1976151104

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Countering the Virtual Caliphate by United States. Congress,Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Countering the virtual caliphate : the State Department's performance : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, second session July 13, 2016.

Author : Yaakov Lappin
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597975612

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Virtual Caliphate by Yaakov Lappin Pdf

In 1924, the last caliphate--an Islamic state as envisioned by the Koran--was dismantled in Turkey. With no state in existence that matches the radical Islamic ideal since, al Qaeda, which sees itself as a government in exile, along with its hundreds of affiliate organizations, has failed to achieve its goal of reestablishing the caliphate. It is precisely this failure to create a homeland, journalist Yaakov Lappin asserts, that has necessitated the formation of an unforeseen and unprecedented entity--that is, a virtual caliphate. An Islamist state that exists on computer servers around the world, the virtual caliphate is used by Islamists to carry out functions typically reserved for a physical state, such as creating training camps, mapping out a state's constitution, and drafting tax laws. In Virtual Caliphate, Lappin shows how Islamists, equipped with twenty-first-century technology to achieve a seventh-century vision, soon hope to upload the virtual caliphate into the physical world. Lappin dispels for the reader the mystery of the jihadi netherworld that exists everywhere and nowhere at once. Anyone interested in understanding the international jihadi movement will find this concise treatment compelling and indispensable.

Author : Feisal al-Istrabadi,Sumit Ganguly
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815732174

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The Future of ISIS by Feisal al-Istrabadi,Sumit Ganguly Pdf

Looking to the future in confronting the Islamic State The Islamic State (best known in the West as ISIS or ISIL) has been active for less than a decade, but it has already been the subject of numerous histories and academic studies—all focus primarily on the past. The Future of ISIS is the first major study to look ahead: what are the prospects for the Islamic State in the near term, and what can the global community, including the United States, do to counter it? Edited by two distinguished scholars at Indiana University, the book examines how ISIS will affect not only the Middle East but the global order. Specific chapters deal with such questions as whether and how ISIS benefitted from intelligence failures, and what can be done to correct any such failures; how to confront the alarmingly broad appeal of Islamic State ideology; the role of local and regional actors in confronting ISIS; and determining U.S. interests in preventing ISIS from gaining influence and controlling territory. Given the urgency of the topic, The Future of ISIS is of interest to policymakers, analysts, and students of international affairs and public policy.

Author : James Brandon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015082683858

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Virtual Caliphate by James Brandon Pdf

Shows how Islamic extremists in the United Kingdom have established dedicated websites in order to circumvent British anti-terrorism measures introduced after July 2005. This work analyzes how British extremists use these sites to spread their ideas, co-ordinate their activities and win new recruits.

Author : M. Martellini,J. Rao
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614998020

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The Risk of Skilled Scientist Radicalization and Emerging Biological Warfare Threats by M. Martellini,J. Rao Pdf

Skilled scientists are not immune to the appeal of terrorist groups, indeed recent studies indicate that engineers and medical doctors are over-represented within terrorist organizations. Also of particular concern with regard to the potential radicalization of scientists is the issue of the ‘lone wolf’; an individual who prepares and commits violence alone, outside of any command structure and without material assistance from any group. This book presents papers from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled ‘The Risk of Skilled Scientist Radicalization and Emerging Biological Warfare Threats’, held in Como, Italy, from 29 November to 2 December 2016. The aim of this ARW was to assess the risks surrounding the ability of radical terrorist groups to recruit highly skilled scientists. The ARW was unique in that it brought together acknowledged experts from the social science community and the scientific technical community to discuss their perspectives on the risk of radicalization of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) skilled scientists. Countering terrorist organizations requires a comprehensive approach characterized by international cooperation across the military, intelligence, policy-making and scientific communities. The book provides an overview of the situation, as well as recommendations for how such cooperation can be achieved, and will be of interest to all those involved in the counter-terrorism process

Author : Shashi Jayakumar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811319990

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Terrorism, Radicalisation & Countering Violent Extremism by Shashi Jayakumar Pdf

This book brings together research that covers perspectives and case studies on terrorism, radicalisation and countering violent extremism (CVE). Written by experts involved in these issues at the grassroots, the book bridges the academic-practitioner gap in the field. The proliferation of academic studies and conferences devoted to these subjects has meant that policymakers and practitioners in the same fields sometimes struggle to digest the sheer volume of academic output. The same critical questions keep coming up, but it is debatable the level to which there have been tangible improvements to our real state of knowledge: knowledge in especially in terms of what “best practices” exist in the field (and what can be translated, versus what approaches remain context and location specific). Written in an accessible manner for the general interested reader, practitioners, and policymakers in the field, this volume comprises edited versions of papers presented at CVE workshops run by the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) at the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2016 and 2017.

Author : Richard Stengel
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802147998

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Information Wars by Richard Stengel Pdf

A “well-told” insider account of the State Department’s twenty-first-century struggle to defend America against malicious propaganda and disinformation (The Washington Post). Disinformation is nothing new. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But today, social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious. In a disturbing turn of events, authoritarian governments are increasingly using it to create their own false narratives, and democracies are proving not to be very good at fighting it. During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard Stengel, former editor of Time, was an Under Secretary of State on the front lines of this new global information war—tasked with unpacking, disproving, and combating both ISIS’s messaging and Russian disinformation. Then, during the 2016 election, Stengel watched as Donald Trump used disinformation himself. In fact, Stengel quickly came to see how all three had used the same playbook: ISIS sought to make Islam great again; Putin tried to make Russia great again; and we know the rest. In Information Wars, Stengel moves through Russia and Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and introduces characters from Putin to Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Mohamed bin Salman, to show how disinformation is impacting our global society. He illustrates how ISIS terrorized the world using social media, and how the Russians launched a tsunami of disinformation around the annexation of Crimea—a scheme that would became a model for future endeavors. An urgent book for our times, now with a new preface from the author, Information Wars challenges us to combat this ever-growing threat to democracy. “[A] refreshingly frank account . . . revealing.” —Kirkus Reviews “This sobering book is indeed needed to help individuals better understand how information can be massaged to produce any sort of message desired.” —Library Journal

Author : Derek M. D. Silva,Mathieu Deflem
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839829888

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Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Derek M. D. Silva,Mathieu Deflem Pdf

The fifteen chapters in this volume of Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance discuss a number of issues researchers in the fields of sociology, criminology, and criminal justice theorize, conceptualize, and measure racialization and counter-radicalization.

Author : Shanthie Mariet D'Souza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429871474

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Countering Insurgencies and Violent Extremism in South and South East Asia by Shanthie Mariet D'Souza Pdf

This volume of case studies examines the rise in violent extremism, terrorism and insurgency in South and South East Asia, and subsequent state responses. The South and South East of Asia has experienced various forms of extremism and violence for years, with a growing demand for academic or policy-relevant work that will enhance understanding of the reasons behind this. The violent challenges in this area have taken a variety of forms and are often exacerbated by lack of governance, tie-ins to existing regional criminal networks, colonial legacies and a presence of international terrorist movements. Written by experts with field experience, this volume analyzes the key element of successful response as the appropriate application of doctrine following nuanced assessment of threat. In practice, this often means counterinsurgency doctrine. The essays also analyze the need for irregular war practitioners to systematically examine the changing character of intrastate violent irregular challenges. The volume fills a gap in the understanding of patterns, drivers, organizations and ideologies of various insurgent and terrorist groups, and state responses. It also provides a set of recommendations for addressing the unfolding situation. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism, Asian politics and security studies in general.

Author : Seth G. Jones,James Dobbins,Daniel Byman,Christopher S. Chivvis,Ben Connable,Jeffrey Martini,Eric Robinson,Nathan Chandler
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833097569

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Rolling Back the Islamic State by Seth G. Jones,James Dobbins,Daniel Byman,Christopher S. Chivvis,Ben Connable,Jeffrey Martini,Eric Robinson,Nathan Chandler Pdf

This report assesses the threat the Islamic State poses to the United States and examines strategies to counter the group.

Author : A. Niglia,A. Al Sabaileh,A. Hammad
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781614997559

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Countering Terrorism, Preventing Radicalization and Protecting Cultural Heritage by A. Niglia,A. Al Sabaileh,A. Hammad Pdf

One of the most pressing challenges in the fight against terror is the way in which terrorist organizations have developed uniquely effective recruitment tools. Terrorist groups such as ISIS have successfully indoctrinated followers from all over the world, expanding their reach far beyond the Middle East. It is imperative that the international community finds effective ways to respond to this threat. This book presents findings and recommendations from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) ‘Human Factors in the Defense Against Terrorism: the Case of Jordan’, held in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in November 2016. The aim of the workshop was to deepen NATO-Jordanian cooperation within the Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) framework by sharing best practices in counter-terrorism and de-radicalization strategies among government authorities and distinguished experts from the diplomatic, military, academic, and private sectors. The discussions were centered around the technological and psychological aspects of terrorist recruitment techniques, particularly with regard to social media and other information-sharing platforms. Participants developed several innovative strategies for preventing, and even reversing, radicalization, and also established a series of protocols and emergency response techniques for practitioners and policy makers in the fields of counter-terrorism and emergency responders. Providing an overview of current expertise and best practice, this book will be of interest to all those collaborating to effectively counter the threats of terrorism and fight the process of radicalization.