The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

by Patrick Cockburn
The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

by Patrick Cockburn

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Overview

The essential “on the ground” report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East, from the winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award

Born of the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, the Islamic State astonished the world in 2014 by creating a powerful new force in the Middle East. By combining religious fanaticism and military prowess, the new self-declared caliphate poses a threat to the political status quo of the whole region.

In The Rise of Islamic State, Patrick Cockburn describes the conflicts behind a dramatic unraveling of US foreign policy. He shows how the West created the conditions for ISIS’s explosive success by stoking the war in Syria. The West—the US and NATO in particular—underestimated the militants’ potential until it was too late and failed to act against jihadi sponsors in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781784780494
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 02/03/2015
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 716 KB

About the Author

Patrick Cockburn is currently Middle East correspondent for the Independent and worked previously for the Financial Times. He has written three books on Iraq’s recent history, including The Occupation and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (with Andrew Cockburn) as well as a memoir, The Broken Boy and, with his son, a book on schizophrenia, Henry’s Demons, which was shortlisted for a Costa Award. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009 and is the winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of The Year Award.

Table of Contents

Maps vii

Preface: The Hundred Days ix

1 The Rise of ISIS 1

2 The Battle of Mosul 11

3 In Denial 23

4 Jihadis on the March 41

5 The Sunni Resurgence in Iraq 61

6 Jihadis Hijack the Syria Uprising 79

7 Saudi Arabia Tries to Pull Back 97

8 If It Bleeds It Leads 111

9 Shock and War 135

Afterword 151

Acknowledgements 163

Index 165

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