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Thick Recognition Failure and Terrorism Emergence in the Middle East (ISIS in Iraq as Case Study)

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان
Mahdokht Zakeri 1
Amir Mohammad Haji Yousefi 2
1 Senior Researcher, Center for the Middle East Strategic Studies Tehran, Iran.
2 Associate Professor Department of Political Science and IR Shahid Beheshti University Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/igq.2024.398275.1776
چکیده
The Middle East has witnessed many identity conflicts and rising violent extremist groups after 2003. The most prominent one has been the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has come to the sphere of politics, in the post Arab Spring era. The goal of this paper is to examine the roots of the emergence of violent extremist groups, principally with reference to ISIS rising in Iraq. To do this authors propose “the four-dimensional thick recognition” model that consists of four concepts i.e., 1) historical narratives, 2) self-esteem 3) ontological security, and 4) hubristic identity. This model highlights that historical narratives of conflict, along with lack of self-esteem leads to feeling of ontological insecurity. This, in turn, leads to a kind of hubristic identity crisis, which often paves the way through struggle for regaining it. By content analysis of major texts published by the ISIS through two major magazines, namely Dabiq and Rumiyah, we try to demonstrate how the rise of ISIS was rooted in the issue of thick recognition failure. The paper concludes that thick recognition failure in these four phases, led to the establishment of violent extremist groups particularly in regions with memories of conflict.
کلیدواژه‌ها
Thick Recognition
Ontological Security
Hubristic Identity
Historical Narratives
ISIS

موضوعات

عنوان مقاله English

Thick Recognition Failure and Terrorism Emergence in the Middle East (ISIS in Iraq as Case Study)

نویسندگان English

Mahdokht Zakeri 1
Amir Mohammad Haji Yousefi 2
1 Senior Researcher, Center for the Middle East Strategic Studies Tehran, Iran.
2 Associate Professor Department of Political Science and IR Shahid Beheshti University Tehran, Iran.
چکیده English

The Middle East has witnessed many identity conflicts and rising violent extremist groups after 2003. The most prominent one has been the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has come to the sphere of politics, in the post Arab Spring era. The goal of this paper is to examine the roots of the emergence of violent extremist groups, principally with reference to ISIS rising in Iraq. To do this authors propose “the four-dimensional thick recognition” model that consists of four concepts i.e., 1) historical narratives, 2) self-esteem 3) ontological security, and 4) hubristic identity. This model highlights that historical narratives of conflict, along with lack of self-esteem leads to feeling of ontological insecurity. This, in turn, leads to a kind of hubristic identity crisis, which often paves the way through struggle for regaining it. By content analysis of major texts published by the ISIS through two major magazines, namely Dabiq and Rumiyah, we try to demonstrate how the rise of ISIS was rooted in the issue of thick recognition failure. The paper concludes that thick recognition failure in these four phases, led to the establishment of violent extremist groups particularly in regions with memories of conflict.
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کلیدواژه‌ها English

Thick Recognition
Ontological Security
Hubristic Identity
Historical Narratives
ISIS
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دوره 20، شماره 4
زمستان 1403
صفحه 50-77

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