Across
- 3. System in which military branches are kept separate rather than integrated, designed to be "coup-proof"
- 5. State's capacity to maintain a monopoly on the means of coercion, essential to maintaining an authoritarian state
- 7. Name of the regime in Syria that was in power during the Arab Spring
- 10. The former prime minister of Iraq from 2006-2014, politicized military leadership, centralized power, and instituted Shia government
- 13. Iraqi dictator in power from 1979-2003 who led the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf War
Down
- 1. Revolutionary leninist group that emerges to try to overthrow a regime (type of group)
- 2. Armed forces where the lines between the official army and paramilitary were blurred, emphasis on the centrality of private-personal networks in government
- 4. Popular use of aggressive and divise communalist rhetoric to further political elite interests
- 6. Islamic form of government idolized by Jihadists and led by a main leader who rules over all Muslim people
- 8. Word used by academics to describe the ideology of islamic military groups that see violence as necessary to create an islamic state
- 9. Name of party that ran a socialist campaign with notable leaders, Hussein and Assad
- 11. Group that is tasked with enforcing sharia law in specific districts under ISIS control
- 12. Tax levied by ISIS against Christians for protection and freedom to practice religion