Colin Clarke Books

In 2014, the declaration of the Islamic State caliphate was hailed as a major victory by the global jihadist movement. But it was short-lived. Three years on, the caliphate was destroyed, leaving its surviving fighters - many of whom were foreign recruits - to retreat and scatter across the globe.So what happens now? Is this the beginning of the end of IS? Or can it adapt and regroup after the physical fall of the caliphate? In this timely analysis, terrorism expert Colin P. Clarke takes stock of IS - its roots, its evolution, and its monumental setbacks - to assess the road ahead. The caliphate, he argues, was an anomaly. The future of the global jihadist movement will look very much like its past - with peripatetic and divided groups of militants dispersing to new battlefields, from North Africa to Southeast Asia, where they will join existing civil wars, establish safe havens and sanctuaries, and seek ways of conducting spectacular attacks in the West that inspire new followers. In this fragmented and atomized form, Clarke cautions, IS could become even more dangerous and challenging for counterterrorism forces, as its splinter groups threaten renewed and heightened violence across the globe.

The book explores the exploitative race relations of two distinct regimes: slavery in the British colonial Caribbean and forced labor during the Holocaust. It highlights the differences in how these systems operated, from the establishment of sugar plantations relying on African and Creole slave labor to the mass extermination of Jewish and Gypsy civilians under Nazi rule. By examining the dehumanization and destruction of life in both contexts, the author sheds light on the unique characteristics and implications of each regime's approach to racial exploitation.

This book provides a first-hand account of the author’s encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume: decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban revolution, the cold war and student radicalism.

First published in 1969. This title concerns itself with the ambivalence of Lawrence¿s attitude towards corruption. Clarke demonstrates that Lawrence¿s attitude to ¿will¿ and to sensational or disintegrative sex is much more equivocal than conceded. At the same time this is a study of Lawrence¿s debt as a novelist to the English Romantic poets. A tradition of metaphor is traced from the second half of the eighteenth century, through the poetry of the major Romantics to the Decadents, and so to Lawrence, whose attitudes to mechanism and corruption are shown to be articulated, above all, through ambivalent images of dissolution and disintegration. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

The book provides an in-depth exploration of Jamaica's political and social landscape surrounding its independence. Through a 1961 journal, it captures the pre-independence atmosphere, while a 1968 journal reveals the aftermath, highlighting how independence quelled dissent and laid the groundwork for the current two-party political system.