Competitive jihadism : A new theorethical approach to jihadi de-facto states

World politics is introduced to a new type of entity with great differences within, namely jihadi de facto states. Due to its rather un-celebrated characteristics and lack of legal basis it was hard to encircle it with definitions and understand with theories. This thesis is concerned with state-building phase of jihadi de facto states and especially it's consolidation of sovereignty and jihadi competition with their parent states. This thesis accepts " Competitive Democratization" of Nina Caspersen as main frame and customizes it for jihadi de- facto states. Moreover it accepts each fact comprises three-level reality and grand theories may not properly function as Rosenau forecasts and names it as " Turbulence Approach". In this study , it is acclaimed that there is a positive correlation between consolidation level of sovereignty of a jihadi de facto state and it's competition on jihadi policies with it's parent state(s). Consolidation requirements are adjusted accordingly League of Nations parameters. I especially confirmed that adopted a more jihadist policy by de facto jihadi state comparing to it's parent state will have positive contribution to its sovereignty level by helping it to gain more repercussion from target audiences and create its own legitimate basis. I applied this hypothesis on "Islamic State-Iraq-Syria" example throughout the thesis, as it is the richest by offering data to study and the most contemporary one. Although it is a recent fact, this case proved to be fully supportive. Keywords: Competitive Jihadism, jihadi de facto state, de facto state, Islamic State,consolidation of sovereignty, ISIS, Republic of Iraq, Arab Republic of Syria, content analysis