Like NGOs, these transnational terrorist groups hold great power and are able to influence the international relations between and within states. These transnational terrorists aim to project their own religious agenda on society. This push for religious influence …show more content…
Currently, the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) threatens American interests in the Middle East and the future of stability in the region.
The Islamic State claims that the border between Iraq and Syria has been dissolved. It controls a third of those territories and is exhibiting increasing strength in Libya. On June 29 the group declared the establishment of a Caliphate in the territories it controlled in Iraq and Syria, and it seeks to establish a Caliphate on a global scale. This Caliphate, defined as a group of theocratic nation states ruled by a single Islamic ruler, would threaten world order and the system of nation-states as it exists today, as first established by Westphalia.
A current example of this is the terrorist group known as ISIS.
ISIS categorically rejects international law and instead enforces its own legal system based on Islamic