ABSTRACT
This chapter will analyze ISIS’ perception of the necessity of returning to an absolute legal and political universalism, which represents its most radical and dystopian affirmation. By doing so, the group questions the very foundations of the contemporary international legal and political order, with particular reference to the idea of territorial sovereignty, embodied by national borders and frontiers. Therefore, ISIS’ universalism is a form of extreme globalization, whose affirmation is projected into a philosophical and religious eschatology that presupposes the establishment of a permanent state of war. Particularly interesting is the parallelism that can be drawn with the Internet, which represents another borderless world, as well as an instrument that ISIS used to become not only a physical but also a “digital caliphate”.
