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Intra-Jihadist Conflict and Cooperation: Islamic State–Khorasan Province and the Taliban in Afghanistan

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posted on 2024-06-03, 22:14 authored by N Ibrahimi, Shahram AkbarzadehShahram Akbarzadeh
© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The proliferation of jihadist groups raises intriguing questions about their internal relationship. Drawing on Resource Mobilization Theory we explore this question by examining the relationship between the Taliban and the local incarnations of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syrian (ISIS) in Afghanistan. We conceive the Taliban and ISIS as parts of a broader “jihadist movement industry” that is simultaneously united and divided by the logic of their embeddedness in the movement. While most existing research emphasizes intra-jihadist conflict or rivalry, we found that the relationship between the two groups goes through cyclical shifts, vacillating between conflict and cooperation.

History

Journal

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism

Volume

43

Pagination

1086-1107

Location

London, ENg.

ISSN

1057-610X

eISSN

1521-0731

Language

English

Notes

In Press

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

12

Publisher

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC