Rosemary Hollis: How we got to this crisis in relations

Everyone has a theory on ‘the Isis problem’ after Paris, and most of them are correct

The scene following the armed siege in St-Denis last Wednesday Picture: Getty

There are several facets to the terrorist threat to life and liberty in Europe posed by the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (al-Shams in Arabic), or Isis. There is also no shortage of theories about how best to deal with it. What is missing, however, is a full acknowledgement of the linkages between multicultural Europe and its southern neighbourhood.

This is not to argue that we need to revisit the ...