ISIS: The State of Terror
Written by Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger
Narrated by Ray Porter
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About this audiobook
The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014.
Drawing on their unusual access to intelligence sources and material, law enforcement, and groundbreaking research into open source intelligence, Stern and Berger outline the origins of ISIS as the formidable terrorist group it has quickly become.
‘State of Terror’ delves into the ‘ghoulish pornography’ of pro-jihadi videos, the seductive appeal of ‘jihadi chic’ and the startling effectiveness of the Islamic State’s use of social media as a means of luring and recruiting citizens from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, and France—using recent examples such as Douglas McCain, the American citizen from Minnesota who joined ISIS and died in combat fighting on the side of the Islamic State.
Although the picture Stern and Berger paint is bleak, ‘State of Terror’ also offers well-informed thoughts on potential government responses to ISIS – most importantly, emphasizing that we must alter our present conceptions of terrorism and react to the rapidly changing jihadi landscape, both online and off, as quickly as the terrorists do. ‘State of Terror: Jihad in the 21st Century’ is not only a compelling account of the evolution of a terrorist organization, but also a necessary book that attempts to answer the question of what our next move – as a country, as a government, as the world – should be.
Jessica Stern
Jessica Stern is a leading expert on terrorism and trauma. Stern is the coauthor with J. M. Berger of ISIS: The State of Terror and the author of Denial: A Memoir of Terror and Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, selected by the New York Times as a notable book of the year. She has held fellowships awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Erikson Institute, and the MacArthur Foundation. She was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a national fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a fellow of the World Economic Forum. Stern is a research professor at Boston University. Prior to teaching, she worked in government, serving on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff and as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Reviews for ISIS
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I found this book very interesting. I was seeking knowledge about ISIS, which this work provided. My one issue was that of course the names of the people involved with the organizations are Arabic, and the organizations are Arabic....so all the names are Arabic which made many of the relationships and changing relationships difficult to follow.Other than that, I thought it was a fine read overall.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This book is full of facts and names and ought to be fascinating, but I kept reading a chapter and not taking in any of it. It's uninteresting and it shouldn't be. So I gave up early on.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book will not keep you on the edge of your seat, if that is what you are seeking from the book. At times, the book kept me interested while at other times, it was drawn out and boring. It did accomplish my number one objective in reading the book - it gave me some insight on the genesis of ISIS and how it ties to the Islam religion and Muslims, in general. I was amazed reading about how ISIS is exploiting social media to get their ideas to a broader audience. The world has become one scary place!!!. I cannot say I am any more of an expert on ISIS than I was before reading the book, but it was a fair read. One and half thumbs up.