ABSTRACT
The main aim of this chapter is to provide a theoretical background for the book. For this reason, the chapter presents and develops four different attitudes towards non-democratic regimes. Individual approaches are further developed in a way which might be useful for setting out the analytical framework of this book. As a result, at the end of the chapter approaches are “deconstructed” into several key research questions which are further dealt with in the following chapters of the book, and which are aimed at discovering various aspects of Daesh. It is not the aim of this chapter to challenge an existing theory by its application to the quasi-state entity of Daesh. Instead the chapter shows what aspects of the theory on non-democratic regimes might be useful in dealing with Daesh and introduces the most important aspects related to non-democratic regimes.
