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There has not been a Caliphate since Ataturk eliminated it in Turkey in 1924.
I don't know what that has to do with the question whether Islam requires believers to engage in jihad. Its most orthodox texts could not make any more clear that it does. Do you think Reliance of the Traveller, for example, is a forgery cooked up by people who just want to spread the impression that Islam counsels war? If so, it's odd that the most prestigious Islamic theologians in the world have verified the authenticity of the text of it I linked to.