Welcome to Extremistan: David J. Rothkopf on the threat and promise of the fracturing of the Middle East. Danny Postel reviews Will the Middle East Implode? by Mohammed Ayoob. Peter Feaver on three ways the Islamic State is turning things upside down. The new jihad: Margaret Coker on how a new generation of Islamist extremists battle-hardened in Iraq and Syria sees the old guard of al Qaeda as too passive. Tarek El-Tablawy on Al-Qaeda’s heirs. Michael Brendan Dougherty on how the West produces jihadi tourists: Men from France, Germany, the U.K., and the US are joining ISIS — don't act so shocked. Hisham Melhem on how the Arab body politic created the ISIS cancer. Andrew Phillips (Queensland): The Islamic State's Challenge to International Order. Peter J. Phillips (USQ): Terrorist Group Brutality and the Emergence of the Islamic State (ISIS). The Islamic State isn’t just killing people — it’s destroying a culture. The jihadis who've flocked to Syria really might be in Madrid or Milwaukee before long: Aki Peritz on the frightening logic of "bleedout". Douglas Ollivant on how the barbaric terrorists of the Islamic State are a threat to the US homeland. James F. Jeffrey on why Barack Obama needs to go to war with the Islamic State, or it will go to war with America. Ali Khedery on how the region's widening chaos could destroy what is left of President Obama's legacy. Washington foreign policy hands make the case for the unthinkable: An alliance with Assad. Zalmay Khalilzad on a five-step plan to destroy the Islamic State. Souad Mekhennet on the terrorists fighting us now: We just finished training them. Jesse Singal on why ISIS is so terrifyingly effective at seducing new recruits. Perhaps ISIS should open a new training camp to instruct its murderous recruits on how to tweet without revealing the precise location of its training camps. From The Cyberterrorism Project, a report on terrorists' use of the Internet. Kimberlee Morrison on how terrorists use social media to spread their message. Jacob Silverman on the State Department’s Twitter Jihad: Can a bureaucracy out-tweet the terrorists? Andrew Kaczynski on how the State Department trolls terrorists on social media.
