North Caucasus — a Wall Against or a Bridge for IS?

... addition to combat activity, IS, according to Global Terrorism Dataset, conducted more terrorist attacks against non-combatants than any other group in 2014. There are many ways to explain the IS phenomenon. One approach, suggested here, is that IS/ISIS strikes right at the interface of what may be the two main trends in the evolution of transnational violent jihadism today [2] . The first trend is the “regionalization” of transnational jihadism. While this has been a mainstream trend ...