Youth Bulge, Exclusionary Regimes, and the Islamic State’s Big Mistake

Last week, the Islamic State’s ignorance of the role of demography in their local success may have led them to overplay their hand. Seeking to dissuade Jordanians from following their government in actively supporting the alliance arrayed against them, they executed a captured Jordanian pilot in horrendous fashion, burning him alive. Yet Jordan is not … Continue reading Youth Bulge, Exclusionary Regimes, and the Islamic State’s Big Mistake