SUNNI RADICALISM: THE “PRESENT” AND THE “FUTURE”

Abstract

The contemporary world processes indicate that the revelry between different globalization projects has escalated. The establishment of “Islamic Caliphate” on 29th of June, 2014 is one of the signs of radical Sunni globalization project. “Islamic Caliphate” is one of the main threats to international security system, stretches across multiple provinces in Iraq and Syria and controlled by militants of radical “Islamic State” group. The aim of the present paper is to analyse some fundamental questions connected with Sunni radicalism. From the analysis, it has been shown that the establishment of caliphate by IS, which is distinguished by low intellectual abilities and high illiteracy rate, solves several problems. On the one hand, it destroys the oneness of jihadist movement, on the other - mythologem of “caliphate”. The establishment of caliphate by IS condemns all Sunni globalisation projects to failure and causes all potentially dangerous elements to concentrate in “caliphate” i.e. far from US, European countries and Russia. IS destabilizes the situation in the region and makes “redrawing of region’s maps” possible. Simultaneously, the threat of activities of “caliphate” supporters’ network, which became obvious after several terrorist acts during 2014-2015, increases.