Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West (Hardcover)

Introduction: A Testament for Syria
I. The Barrel and the Koran
1. The Islamization of the Political Order
2. The Onset of International Jihad: Taking on the Near Enemy (1980?1987)
3. The Second Jihadist Phase: Against the Distant Enemy (1998?2005)
4. The Third Jihadist Generation: Networks and Territories (2005?2019)
II. From Arab Spring to Jihadist Caliphate
5. The Arab Spring in Context
6. From the Fall of Despots to Societies in Turmoil
7. Sectarianism and Derailed Rebellions: The Shiite-Sunni Fault Line
III. After ISIS: Disintegration and Regrouping
8. The Fracturing of the Sunni Bloc
9. The Global Stakes in the Fight for the Levant
Conclusion: Middle Eastern Fault Lines and Global Tectonics
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Index