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The Terrorist's Dilemma : Managing Violent Covert Organizations /

How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit? The Terrorist's Dilemma is the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shapiro, Jacob N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit? The Terrorist's Dilemma is the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups are structured. Employing a broad range of agency theory, historical case studies, and terrorists' own internal documents, Jacob Shapiro provocatively discusses the core managerial challenges that terrorists face and illustrates how their political goals interact with the operational environment.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (350 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400848645
1400848644