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The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
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The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

John W Janzekovic
International Organizations and The Rise of ISIL: Global Responses to Human Security Threats, pp.29-57
Routledge
2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315536095-2
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Abstract

Political Science Policy and Administration international security international agencies human security Middle East international cooperation Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
In Iraq and Syria, as well as in neighbouring states, the rise of ISIL has raised serious state and human security challenges. This study explores the relationships between the Global-Regional Partnership, the United Nations and nine organizations in their attempt to deal with the challenges presented by ISIL. Each organization is analyzed in terms of how it has responded in the past and how it is now responding to the ISIL threat based on three perspectives; resource capacities (military, political, economic, technological, normative); willingness and readiness; and impediments to capacity and abilities. The overall aim is to discern what capacities and abilities international organizations have to protect state and human security and prevent civilians from mass atrocities inflicted by ISIL forces. The study addresses the role of international organizations when the UNSC is unable or unwilling to uphold the most fundamental norms and values in the UN Charter. This approach acknowledges that within the international community there is an overall acceptance on security for a partnership between the UN and regional organizations, but that there is also a contested call for a renegotiated international contract on state and human security. This volume will be of much interest to students of international relations, human rights, peace and conflict studies, terrorism studies and International Relations. [Book Synopsis]

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