ISIS as Revolutionary State
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...Similarly, Stephen Walt (Walt, 2015) suggested that ISIS is best seen as a revolutionary state that is not all that different from cases such as Revolutionary France and the early Soviet Union....
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...This angle frames ISIS as a revolutionary actor, which takes stock of a traditional territorial center of gravity and power (Byman, 2016; Cronin, 2015; Walt, 2015a) and not only as a transnational terrorist organization and social movement....
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...The actions taken against ISIS rely on a limited approach, focusing on military operations to recapture territory and prevent ISIS’s territorial expansion (Jordan & Rubin, 2016; Juneau, 2015; Posen, 2015; Walt, 2015a, 2015b; Zakheim, 2014)....
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...It is a revolutionary movement that replaced existing state structures with different ones (Byman, 2016, pp. 144–145; Walt, 2015a, p. 43), yet it is also a brutal insurgent organization (Pischedda, 2015) motivated by a theo-political agenda....
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