ISIS, and the façade of negative cooperation

This paper examines the motivating factors that have brought together a motley crew of world powers against the group which calls itself "the Islamic State" (variously, "the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant" or "the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria").... More

This paper examines the motivating factors that have brought together a motley crew of world powers against the group which calls itself "the Islamic State" (variously, "the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant" or "the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria"). How committed is the international coalition against that group to genuine cooperation? Less