"This edition is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2015 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop [which met] in Aspen Colorado."

"Wye Publication Number: 15/018."

Series title from Table of contents web page (JSTOR platform, viewed May 19, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1: The roots and appeal of extremism. The seventh annual Ernest May Memorial Lecture: the history and ideology of the Islamic State / Bernard Haykel ; Extremism in the Middle East and beyond: fighting and winning the ideological war / Farah Pandith ; Radicalization after the Arab Spring: lessons from Tunisia and Egypt / Shadi Hamid ; Extremism, sectarianism, and regional rivalry in the Middle East / Vali Nasr -- Part 2: The rise of the Islamic State. Fighting ISIS, then and now / Ryan Crocker ; The spread of the Islamic State in the Middle East / David Ignatius ; Enduring and expanding: how the Islamic State offsets its territorial losses / William McCants ; Attacks on western targets: what to expect / Graeme Wood -- Part 3: A toolbox to counter ISIS. Alternative military strategy options to combat ISIS / James E. Cartwright ; The new age of terror: more than a decade after September 11, 2001, the world faces a growing and adaptive threat of terrorism / Frances Townsend ; Digital counterinsurgency: how to marginalize the Islamic State online / Jared Cohen ; A third pillar for the strategy and conduct of U.S. foreign policy / Tom Pritzker -- Part 4: The American strategy to combat ISIS and violent extremism. ISIS will not be defeated; it can only be contained / Dov Zakheim ; The hinges of a successful strategy to defeat ISIL / Peter Feaver ; An intensified approach to combatting the Islamic State / Mich�ele Flournoy and Richard Fontaine ; U.S. and coalition strategy against ISIS / Philip Zelikow ; The challenge of violent extremism / Sarah Sewall.

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