Adam Shatz is the contributing editor at the London Review of Books. He lives in New York. In this article he says
‘The attacks in Paris don’t reflect a clash of civilisations, but rather the fact that we really do live in a single, if unequal world, where the torments in one region inevitably spill over into another, where everything connects, somethings with lethal consequences. … For all its medieval airs, the caliphate holds up a mirror to the world we have made, not only in Raqqa and Mosul, but in Paris, Moscow and Washington.’
See link to article below.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n23/adam-shatz/magical-thinking-about-isis