Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, leader of IS, reportedly wounded this week. © Balkis Press/ABACA/Press Association Images
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan (Simon & Schuster, £7.99)
ISIS: the State of Terror by Jessica Stern and JM Berger (William Collins, £14.99)
There is a pronounced pessimism in our thinking about international politics. We are told the world is getting more dangerous. That the Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation was a pale shadow of the turmoil we see around us from Ukraine to Syria to Pakistan. Where states are strong—Russia and China—they are challenging the liberal order. Where …read more
Source: Prospect
