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The Jihadist Marketplace: Understanding Competition Between Al Qaeda And Isis, Hristo Voynov
The Jihadist Marketplace: Understanding Competition Between Al Qaeda And Isis, Hristo Voynov
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ISIS and al Qaeda are the world’s preeminent transnational jihadist organizations. Following a public schism, the two started competing, even though they previous cooperated to accomplish their shared goals. This split divided the movement, which was previously united under the leadership of al Qaeda. Now the two must compete with one another for the limited resources of the global jihadist movement as the loser of the competition risks losing their standing within the movement, which may lead to irrelevancy, or even organizational demise, for the loser. This competition requires study because it is necessary to explain why the two would …