Jihadist insurgent movements / edited by Paul B. Rich and Richard Burchill.

The chapters in this books were originally published in "Small wars & insurgencies", volume 27, issue 5 (2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Ahmed Al-Hamli -- Introduction / Paul B. Rich -- 1. The Islamic State and the return of revolutionary warfare / Craig Whiteside -- 2. How revolutionary are Jihadist insurgencies? the case of ISIL / Paul B. Rich -- 3. Global Jihad and foreign fighters / George Joffé -- 4. A fratricidal Libya: making sense of a conflict complex / Mikael Eriksson -- 5. Belgian and Dutch Jihadist foreign fighters (2012-2015): characteristics, motivations, and roles in the war in Syria and Iraq / Edwin Bakker and Roel de Bont -- 6. Who goes, why, and with what effects: the problem of foreign fighters from Europe / Lasse Lindekilde, Preben Bertelsen and Michael Stohl -- 7. A sectarian Jihad in Nigeria: the case of Boko Haram / Marc-Antione Pérouse de Montclos -- 8. Operation Barkhane and Boko Haram: French counterterrorism and military cooperation in the Sahel / Christopher Griffin -- 9. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: terrorism, insurgency, or organized crime? / Sergei Boeke -- 10. Shapeshifter of Somalia: evolution of the political territoriality of Al-Shabaab / Bohumil Doboš -- 11. Jihadist insurgency and the prospects for peace and security / Richard Burchill -- Afterword / Paul B. Rich.

This path-breaking collection of papers examines the phenomenon of jihadist insurgent movements in the Middle East and North, East and West Africa. It argues that military and strategic analysts have paid insufficient attention to the phenomenon of jihadism in insurgent movements, partly due to a failure to take the role of religion sufficiently seriously in the ideological mobilisation of recruits by guerrilla movements stretching back to the era of "national liberation" after World War Two. Several essays in the collection examine Al Qaeda and ISIL as military as well as political movements while others assess Boko Haram in West Africa, Al Shabaab in Somalia and jihadist movements in Libya. Additionally, some authors discuss the recruitment of foreign fighters and the longer-term terrorist threat posed by the existence of jihadist movements to security and ethnic relations in Europe.-- Publisher's website.