The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded around the international stage in summer 2014.

Drawing on the unusual access to intelligence sources and material, law enforcement, and groundbreaking research into open source intelligence, Stern and Berger format the origins of ISIS as the formidable terrorist group it has quickly become.

‘Condition of Terror’ delves in to the ‘ghoulish pornography’ of pro-jihadi movies, the seductive selling point of ‘jihadi chic’ about ISIS: The Condition of Terror as well as the startling effectiveness of the Islamic State’s usage of social media as a way of luring and recruiting people from countries like the United States, Great Britain, and France-using latest examples such as Douglas McCain, the American citizen from Minnesota who became a member of ISIS and died in combat fighting on the side of the Islamic Condition.

However the picture Stern and Berger paint is bleak, ‘State of Terror’ offers well-informed applying for grants potential government responses to ISIS – most of all, emphasizing that we must alter our present conceptions of terrorism and respond to the rapidly changing jihadi landscape, both online and off, as quickly as the terrorists do. ‘Condition of Terror: Jihad in the 21st Century’ isn’t only a compelling account of the advancement of the terrorist corporation, but also a required book that tries to answer fully the question of what our next move – as a country, being a federal government, as the world – ought to be.