DYNAMICS OF WORLDWIDE JIHAD PHENOMENON, FROM AL-QAEDA TO ISLAMIC STATE
DYNAMICS OF WORLDWIDE JIHAD PHENOMENON, FROM AL-QAEDA TO ISLAMIC STATE

Summary/Abstract: Thus far, Al Qaeda has been perceived as the indisputable banner of the contemporary religious extremism and modern terrorism. The annihilation of its leader, Osama bin Laden, seemed to have marked the commencement of this organization’s setback but the effects of the Arab Spring offered the premises of a dramatic revival. The recent turmoil in the security environment in the Middle East favored the occurrence of a strong organization bearing extremist connotations, the Islamic State, a group with a fast and startling regional ascent in Syria and Iraq that brings new territorial (state) and military dimensions to the Islamic extremism. As a result, the ascent of the Islamic State represents a significant change at the tier of the Jihadist phenomenon, having geopolitical consequences that do not send Al Qaeda into oblivion but, on the contrary, have an increasing effect as the peril of the worldwide Jihadist extremism diversifies and upsurges.

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