BEYOND SYRIA IRAQ

GOVERNANCE
administration in Iraq and Syria may hurt its appeal in the long run. This
absence of effective governing initiatives may also have affected the central
leadership’s calculations in terms of willingness to declare new wilayat.
Although operations have been officially claimed in both Somalia and Tunisia,
for instance, IS notably has not declared a province in either of these
places, perhaps because the central leadership realizes a failure to show its
development as a state rather than just a terrorist threat will make the declaration
of new provinces seem like little more than cheap propaganda ploys.
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