Articles by Essa Younes

Running a terrorist group can be compared to running a private company, although the rewards and punishments for right and wrong decisions differ. That is why experts, when seeking to obtain the most complete knowledge possible of the motivations behind each attack, each propaganda video, each summary execution or each action carried out by one of these groups, cannot leave aside the analysis from the institutional point of view. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

As a consequence of the chaos resulting from the so-called “Arab Spring” and the geopolitical events that have occurred in the Middle East in the last decade, a new map of balances, power struggles, political vacuums and failed states has been reached. This unstable breeding ground has considerably favored the presence of terrorist organizations and the interference of countries with power or ideological ambitions in the internal affairs of other states, as well as the rise of an Islamist discourse that has served as a basis, in turn, to a populist discourse that seeks both to stand on “the shoulders of the poor” and to exploit prevailing xenophobia and classism. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.