{"423541":{"#nid":"423541","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why the Islamic State won\u2019t become a normal state","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThere has been a recent surge of interest in what type of impact the Islamic State might potentially have on the international system. Most provocatively, in a recent Foreign Policy article Stephen Walt\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/06\/10\/what-should-we-do-if-isis-islamic-state-wins-containment\/\u0022\u003Esuggests\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that should the Islamic State win (i.e. survive), the U.S. should \u201clive with it\u201d and rely on a policy of containment. Over time, he suggests, the international community might come to accept the Islamic State into the community of civilized nations as it has accepted other revolutionary and expansionist states in the past, because the pressures of the international system would force it to change its barbaric behavior to survive as a recognized state.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27751","created_gmt":"2015-07-09 15:07:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:38","author":"Vince Pedicino","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"cohort","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2015\/07\/09\/why-the-islamic-state-wont-become-a-normal-state\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65215":{"id":"65215","type":"image","title":"Assistant Professor Lawrence Rubin","body":null,"created":"1449176801","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:06:41","changed":"1475894577","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:57","alt":"Assistant Professor Lawrence Rubin","file":{"fid":"193200","name":"tky09700.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tky09700.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tky09700.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":75461,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tky09700.jpg?itok=JtPuYtx6"}}},"media_ids":["65215"],"groups":[{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"}],"categories":[{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3906","name":"foreign policy"},{"id":"6917","name":"IS"},{"id":"95971","name":"ISIS"},{"id":"105281","name":"Islamic State"},{"id":"167781","name":"Syria"},{"id":"5676","name":"US"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}