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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: The Geography of the Islamic State -- PART I ORIGINS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE -- 2 The Rise of the Islamic State (IS) -- 3 Ideology and Theology -- 4 The Use of Propaganda and Social Media -- 5 IS and al-Qaeda -- PART II IS AND THE MIDDLE EAST AND PERSIAN GULF -- 6 Islamic State: Redefining the World Stage -- 7 IS in Syria -- 8 Those who face Death: An Examination of the Relationship between Kurdistan and the Islamic State -- 9 Regional Powers and the Islamic State -- PART III IS AND THE WEST -- 10 The Obama Administration and IS -- 11 The European Response to IS -- 12 Islamic State Recruitment Strategies and Tactics -- 13 Canada, Australia and New Zealand and the Islamic State -- 14 The New Islamic State Conclusions -- Index

Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- I. Campaigning and Geography -- Chapter 2: The Obama White House's Transition from Governing to Campaigning -- Chapter 3: A Heartbeat Away: The Strategic Importance of Paul Ryan and Joe Biden in the 2012 Presidential Election -- Chapter 4: The Political Geography of the 2012 Presidential Election -- Chapter 5: The Republican Advantage Continues: The 2012 Election in the South -- Chapter 6: The 2012 Presidential Race in Battleground Florida: Changing Demographics Challenge the Obama and Romney Campaigns -- II. Domestic and Economic Policy -- Chapter 7: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt": Using the Past to Win the Present -- Chapter 8: Health Care in the 2012 Election -- Chapter 9: The Obama Regulatory Record: Partisanship, Perception, and the 2012 Election -- Chapter 10: Conspicuous Silence: Global Climate Change and the 2012 Presidential Election -- III. Foreign Policy -- Chapter 11: American Exceptionalism and the Elections of 1976, 1980, and 2012 -- Chapter 12: President Obama's National Security and Counterterrorism Strategy and the Presidential Election of 2012 -- Chapter 13: The Obama Administration's Homeland Security Record as a 2012 Campaign Issue -- Chapter 14: U.S. Foreign Policy and Global Change in the 2012 Presidential Election -- Contributors -- Index.

Developing ideas established in the successful first edition, this new version of America's War on Terror updates and expands the original collection of essays, allowing the reader to fully understand how the causes of the war on terror, both the domestic and foreign policy implications, and the future challenges faced by the United States have moved on since 2003.

"The presidential election of 2012 was among the most important in American history, both for the policies that will persist due to its result as well as the national political transformation it portends. The contest's outcome was the product of complex and fast-moving societal changes--demographic, technological, and economic--surfacing in American society. This volume, consisting of writings by leading scholars of American politics and the American presidency, examines the 2012 presidential election in its many facets. Particularly prominent in these analyses are: psychology, religion, and culture, rhetoric, and voting"--