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Author Jones, Seth G., author

Title The evolution of the Salafi-Jihadist threat : current and future challenges from the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and other groups / Seth G. Jones, Charles Vallee, Danika Newlee, Nicholas Harrington, Clayton Sharb, Hannah Byrne
Published Washington, DC : Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (approximately 74 pages) : color illustrations, color map, color photographs
Contents Executive summary. -- Chapter 01 Introduction. -- Chapter 02 The evolving landscape. -- Chapter 03 The Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and other groups and networks. -- Chapter 04 Future developments. -- Chapter 05 Implications. -- Appendix Salfi-Jihadist and allied groups
Summary Despite the Islamic State's loss of territory in Iraq and Syria, an increasingly diffuse Salafi-jihadist movement is far from defeated. This report constructs a data set of groups and fighters from 1980 to 2018, including from the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. It finds that the number of Salafi-jihadists in 2018 declined somewhat from a high in 2016, but is still at near-peak levels since 1980. These findings suggest that there is a large pool of Salafi-jihadist and allied fighters willing and able to use violence to achieve their goals. Every U.S. president since 9/11 has tried to move away from counterterrorism in some capacity, and it is no different today. Balancing national secu­rity priorities in today's world needs to happen grad­ually. For the United States, the challenge is not that U.S. officials are devoting attention and resources to dealing with state adversaries like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. These countries present legitimate threats to the United States at home and abroad. Rath­er, the mistake would be declaring victory over ter­rorism too quickly and, as a result, shifting too many resources and too much attention away from terrorist groups when the threat remains significant
Notes "A report of the CSIS Transnational Threats project"--Cover
"Nov, 2018."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-71)
Notes Online resource; title from PDF cover page (CSIS, viewed Noveber 22, 2018)
Subject Qaida (Organization)
IS (Organization)
SUBJECT IS (Organization) fast (OCoLC)fst01914325
Qaida (Organization) fast (OCoLC)fst00763708
Subject Terrorists -- Statistics
Jihad.
Salafīyah.
Jihad.
Salafīyah.
Terrorists.
Genre/Form Statistics.
Form Electronic book
Author Vallee, Charles, author
Newlee, Danika, author
Harrington, Nicholas, author
Sharb, Clayton, author
Byrne, Hannah, author
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.), publisher.