ISIS – A GLOBAL OR REGIONAL THREAT?
ISIS – A GLOBAL OR REGIONAL THREAT?

Summary/Abstract: The study of terrorism is a very diverse, contingent and complex phenomenon. The world has long been fighting terrorism, pervaded with ethnic and religious characteristics, it does not represent a new tool against the civilized world order. Terrorism, featured by religious narratives backed by economic and political aspirations, has significantly changed a number of institutions and states’ geopolitical strategies towards the hot terroristic areas of the world. When the Western world, in particular the USA, started celebrating a meritorious victory against “Al-Qaeda”, by killing its spiritual leader Osama bin Laden, simultaneously a new terroristic organization called the “Islamic State of/in Iraq and Syria” (hereafter ISIS) announced a pretension of being a discretionary power in the Middle East. This paper aims at observing and analyzing how the ISIS has transformed from regional to a global threat and how the forming processes of such heavily militarized terrorist organization have developed to be perceived as a top global challenge of the world.

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