1. Introduction
2. Formal Organizational Expansion: A Theoretical Framework
3. The Puzzle of a Branching-Out Strategy
4. Explaining al-Qaeda's Franchising Strategy
5. Explaining Arena Choices: Two Perspectives
6. Stepping Into Uncharted Territory: Al-Qaeda's First
Expansions
7. Spreading: Al-Qaeda's Branches in Algeria, Yemen, and Somalia
8. Absent: Al-Qaeda and the Egyptian, Libyan, and Palestinian Arenas
9. Upstaged: Al-Qaeda and the Syrian Civil War
10. Conclusions
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Barak Mendelsohn is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College, a research fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and a senior fellow at the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). He specializes in radical Islamist
organizations, with an emphasis on al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. His research interests also cover Middle East security, terrorism and counter-terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, and questions of international order.