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ISIS’ march across the Middle East illuminates the degree to which security and sovereignty mutually inform one another. Where one is lacking, the other will be found to be equally wanting. This chapter explores how these categories link to one another by using 9/11, the Arab Spring, and ISIS to make its case. Failed attempts at state building after 9/11 as surely as the toppling of autocratic sovereign regimes by way of the Arab Spring culminated in a security vacuum that was filled by ISIS in Iraq, Syria, and beyond. Outmoded policies to counter ISIS have been complicated by the failure to appreciate the role sovereignty plays in effecting security.
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Jacob, E.D. (2017). Sovereignty and Security: 9/11, the Arab Spring, and ISIS. In: Jacob, E. (eds) Rethinking Security in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52542-0_7
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