POLI104 - Troy 2020 'containment of IS' - VNSAs

Flashcards on the containment of the Islamic State, covering key definitions and concepts from the article.

Containment policies (regarding ISIS)

Stopping the expansion of an opponent's territorial advancement and bolstering regional resilience, but not targeting ideology.

Containment strategies success

Successful when confronting a homogenous structured entity controlling territory but fails when confronted by a network

Type I actors (based on secular structure and agency)

Nation states; the original subjects of containment.

Type II actors (based on secular structure and agency)

Secular non-state actors (e.g., terrorist actors).

Type III actors (based on secular structure and agency)

Actors which structure rest on a traditional state-based structure but partly operated and justified by religious agency (e.g., Iran)

Type IV actors (based on secular structure and agency)

Non-state actors, operating and justified by a religious mode of agency (e.g., Al-Qaeda).

Where does ISIS's power come from

The product of the ideology of Islamism and of circumstances, such as civil war, the Sunni-Shia rivalry, and the consequences of military interventions.

ISIS

Brutal insurgent theo-political group - revolutionary in replacing existing state structures with different ones

Containment's theoretical background

Realism has been the blueprint of containment strategies, emphasizing restraint in foreign policy conduct

Conceptual core of containment

The assumption that an opponent cannot endure endless frustration without eventually changing its conduct.