Category: International relations

By Yoram Kannangara            The commencement of the new millennium and the age of global networks, 9/11, The Gulf War(s) semantics, Al-Qaeda, and incessant turmoil in the Middle-East. These are all small pieces of the puzzle that, put together, shows a fragment of the Islamic State’s (IS) rise. Ultimately it becomes trivial to question how and why IS came into existence and who is to blame, a vicious circle many an academic has tumbled into. That would be similar to attributing the puzzle’s image to a starting piece, a redundancy because it doesn’t matter where one starts as in the end all the pieces will come together anyway displaying the same picture.