{"330451":{"#nid":"330451","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Who\u2019s Afraid of an \u2018Islamic State\u2019?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETrying to make sense of the patterns of alignments in the Middle East, especially since the Iraq war that began in 2003, is not easy, writes Nun School assistant professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/rubin\u0022\u003ELawrence Rubin\u003C\/a\u003E in a blog post for \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2014\/10\/02\/whos-afraid-of-an-islamic-state\/\u0022\u003EThe Washington Post.\u003C\/a\u003E Allies and enemies line up in shifting coalitions of support and opposition across any number of conflicts \u2013 from the Syrian civil war, to the Iranian nuclear question, to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although much ink has been spilled on the role of sectarian rivalry and the balance of military power, one reliable predictor of how political coalitions shake out in any given situation remains one of the least explored: The\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eideological\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;threats presented by non-state or quasi-state actors such as Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic State and other Islamist regimes may be just as, if not more, potent than the military challenges they pose.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2014\/10\/02\/whos-afraid-of-an-islamic-state\/\u0022\u003ERead more...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27751","created_gmt":"2014-10-02 10:46:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:43","author":"Vince Pedicino","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"graduation 2023","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2014\/10\/02\/whos-afraid-of-an-islamic-state\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"}],"categories":[{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"795","name":"CISTP"},{"id":"999","name":"IAC"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"},{"id":"105281","name":"Islamic State"},{"id":"10536","name":"Nunn School"},{"id":"167055","name":"security"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}