DEAŞ'in jeopolitik tahayyülünü anlamlandırmak

This thesis headed "Making Sense of ISIS' Geopolitical Imagination," which consists of three main chapters, focuses on the geopolitical discourse of ISIS, and the territoriality understanding therein. The first chapter provides a conceptual framework against the background of critical geopolitics. In doing so, it unveils how the matter of research in this thesis is approached. The second chapter seeks to examine how ISIS' understanding of territoriality externalizes itself, in particular within the group's own texts (such as its online issued magazine Dabiq). In this connection, while definitions such as 'the self' or 'the other' are explored with regard to the term territoriality, the question of how ISIS geopolitically imagines the world is touched upon. Another cornerstone of the second chapter is ISIS' contextualization of certain apocalyptic narratives – ascribed to some religious references – while producing its territoriality discourse. The third chapter builds on the former when analyzing how ISIS maps territoriality, which is centered on its self-construction and otherization strategies.