Solving the puzzle of terrorist categorization: a study of the administrative and financial structure of ISIS
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2019-06
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Medical Council of India
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This paper will analyze the formation, the structure as well as the maintenance channels of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and study the evolution process of its system as aresult of various factors that are not observed in other terrorist groups recently. A brief consideration of traditional and new forms of terrorism based on related theories will be mentioned,followed by an overview of the analysis of the administrative structure and financial mechanisms of ISIS. Firstly, we will start with the conceptualization of the terrorist group and analysis of thestructure of administration of the organization, and then we will research the economic and the financial pillars of the organization. The study claims that the group has been a new pattern in thelast decades for the terrorist organizations because of its state-like structure, the administrative division within a specific terrain under its control and resources that can be exploited for the cause.Compared to other terrorist organizations, ISIS performed a well-structured, a quasi-state proportion of management in accumulation and distribution of resource for active use. The mainobjective of this article consists of three main bodies divided into the conceptualization of ISIS, the analysis of the administrative structure and the funding sources of ISIS.
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Old and new waves of terrorism, administrative structure, financial mechanism, ISIS
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M Elvir, Xunjie Sun. Solving the puzzle of terrorist categorization: a study of the administrative and financial structure of ISIS. International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies. 2019 Jun; 6(2): 57-63