"A pioneering work that puts the rise of the Islamic State in perspective and makes compelling arguments about the threats it will pose in the years to come."
Daniel Byman, Georgetown University
"Clarke's richly detailed and informative book fills a conspicuous gap in the literature by providing an up-to-date assessment of the IS, its short-lived but enormously consequential proto-state, and the movement's uncertain future."
Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University and author of Inside Terrorism
"Authoritative and comprehensive"
Foreign Affairs
Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D., is an assistant teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a senior research fellow at The Soufan Center, an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.