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Blood year: terror and the Islamic state

by Bolinda Audio (Firm), Kilcullen, David

fromQuarterly essay

0 Type: Book

Last year was a "blood year" in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, A…

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Blood year: terror and the Islamic state

by Bolinda Audio (Firm), Kilcullen, David

fromQuarterly essay

0 Type: Book

Last year was a "blood year" in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, A…

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Blood year: terror and the Islamic state

by Kilcullen, David

fromQuarterly essay

0 Type: Book

Last year was a "blood year" in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, A…

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Blood year: the unraveling of Western counterterrorism

by Kilcullen, David

0 Type: Book

2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States because of the war that began in 2003, los…

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Blood year: the unraveling of Western counterterrorism

by Kilcullen, David

0 Type: Book

"2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States because of the war that began in 2003, lo…

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Blood year: the unraveling of Western counterterrorism

by Kilcullen, David

0 Type: Book

"2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States because of the war that began in 2003, lo…

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Blood year: the unraveling of Western counterterrorism

by Kilcullen, David

0 Type: Book

"2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States because of the war that began in 2003, lo…

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Blood year: the unraveling of Western counterterrorism

by Kilcullen, David

0 Type: Book

In Blood Year, David Kilcullen provides a wide-angle view of the current situation in the Middle East and analyzes how America and the West ended up in such dire circumstances. Focusing on the events of 2014--a year of massacres and beheadings, fallen cities and collapsing state…

Contemporary treatments of Islam focus on the Middle East; they treat the beliefs and people of that region as representing all of Islam. At most they emphasize the differences between Muslim groups - Sunni vs. Shia, for instance - while overlooking the even greater differences …

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Islam in world cultures: comparative perspectives

by Feener, R. Michael

fromReligion in contemporary cultures

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Islam in World Cultures analyzes differences in Islamic culture and practice, not by looking at pure matters of doctrine, but through the lens of interaction with local culture.

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Islam in world cultures: comparative perspectives

by Feener, R. Michael

fromReligion in contemporary cultures

0 Type: Book

Analyzes differences in Islamic culture and practice by looking not simply at matters of doctrine, but also at how Islam interacts with local cultures.