The Future of ISIS by Feisal al-Istrabadi, Sumit Ganguly - 9780815732167

The Future of ISISRegional and International Implications\nAuthor(s): Feisal al-Istrabadi, Sumit Ganguly\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Brookings Institution\nISBN-13: 9780815732167, 978-0815732167\nSynopsis\nLooking to the future in confronting the Islamic State\n\nThe 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 studiesall 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?\n\nEdited 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 c.