Journal of Islamic Awakening Studies

The bankrupt state and the phenomenon of extremism: an analysis of the rise of the ISIS terrorist group in Syria

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Mohammad Yeganeh

Instructor, Department of Political Science, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
The Syrian crisis and the rise and spread of ISIS attracted the attention of the world and transformed the Middle East region in a way that was not imagined before 2011. So that it created different transformations in the internal arena of Syria and it was designated as an arena for the countries of the world to strive to secure national interests. From this point of view, the present article tries to answer the question that according to the problem of state-nation building in Syria, what factors have caused the penetration and expansion of the ISIS terrorist group? (Statement of the problem). The current research tries to qualitatively and with a descriptive-analytical approach, the factors of influence and spread of extremist terrorism of ISIS by insisting on the theoretical framework of the bankrupt state in Syria, by using information collection, including books, articles and internet data. put check (method). It seems that the influence and expansion of ISIS in Syria was due to the incomplete political structure, economic crisis, loss of legitimacy of the government and systemic pressures. Thus, there is a direct connection between the phenomenon of terrorism and the bankrupt government, which means that one of the factors of the rise and spread of ISIS was the weak performance of the Syrian government in the political, economic, social and cultural fields (findings).

Keywords

Bankrupt government
ISIS
Syria
terrorism

Subjects

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