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world and to the injustices of foreign, especially Western, policies. There is an opinion fairly
popular in the Middle East that Islamization is a new model of sorts, a third road, an Islamic
variant of democratization and revival" (p. 38). In other countries similar processes have taken
peaceful forms, such is the idea of "revital-ization" and the China Dream in the PRC.
The authors have not only discussed why the phenomenon of the Islamic State became possible;
they looked into its history, its structure, the way it is promoting its ideology; they revealed its fi-
nancial and economic foundations, the forms and methods of brainwashing and paid particular
attention to the specific ideological context in which the jihadist trends in Islam were revived as
"theoretical models" of sorts of the IS.
The ideas of the Islamic State are very popular, write the authors, because Islamists while talking
about a caliphate based on medieval dogmas, the ideas of fairness and equality "rely on the latest
methods of agitation and propaganda.
The authors have concluded that "the struggle against radical Islamism, on the whole, and the
IS, in particular will bring the desired results, first, if the IS-controlled territories will be steadily
shrinking, second, if the opposing forces, including the so-called moderate Islamists consolidate
their efforts and, third, if everyday life in the countries where radicals mobilize the majority of
human and other resources considerably improves" (p. 38).
Ideology is another important weapon of struggle against radical Islamism; alternative theoretical
concepts designed to achieve social peace should be offered and combined with reforms in the
system of education at all levels.
The report speaks of economic, educational, social and other projects to be realized in the region
through the concerted efforts of the world community (including Russia) as indispensable and
practicable; they may become an efficient counterweight to the plans of imposing democracy
by the force of arms. "This will add to the ruling regime's viability and create the conditions for
gradual modernization of the systems of governance deeply rooted in the past. It means that
the local resources, traditions, tribal, clan and ethno-confessional relations should be taken into
account" (p. 40).
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