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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Challenge of Organizing Terror; 1.2 The Terrorist's Dilemma; 1.3 Why Understanding Hierarchy and Control Matters; 1.4 What About 9/11?; 1.5 Are Terrorist Organizations Really So Familiar?; 1.6 Can We Treat Terrorist Organizations as Rational?; 1.7 Plan of the Book; 2 The Terrorist's Dilemma; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Why Preference Divergence?; 2.3 How Groups Respond to Preference Divergence; 2.4 The Difficult Challenge of Balancing Security with Efficiency and Control; 2.5 Conclusion.
- 3 The Insider's View on Terrorist Organizations3.1 Organizing Terror; 3.2 Data; 3.3 Quantitative Analysis; 3.4 Content Analysis: Some Good Stories; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 Organizing Al-Qa'ida in Iraq's Operations and Finances; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 A Brief History of al-Qa'ida in Iraq; 4.3 Managing AQI; 4.4 Conclusion; 5 The Tradeoffs; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Managing Terrorist Funds: The Security-Efficiency Tradeoff; 5.3 Managing Terrorist Violence: The Security-Control Tradeoff; 5.4 Discussion; 6 Uncertainty and Control in Russia; 6.1 Introduction.
- 6.2 A Brief History of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Terrorism6.3 A History of Pre-Revolutionary Terrorism; 6.4 Uncertainty and Patterns of Control; 6.5 Other Aspects of Russian Terrorism; 6.6 Conclusion; 7 Discrimination and Control in Ireland; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Discrimination and Patterns of Violence; 7.3 Measuring Control; 7.4 The Provisional IRA; 7.5 The Loyalist Paramilitaries; 7.6 Conclusion; 8 Preference Divergence and Control in Palestine; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Fatah: The Challenges of Integration; 8.3 Hamas; 8.4 Control in Fatah and Hamas; 8.5 Conclusion.
- 9 Conclusion and Recommendations9.1 Summary of the Argument; 9.2 Exploiting Organizational Vulnerabilities; 9.3 Conclusion; Appendix A Annotated Bibliography of Terrorist Autobiographies; A.1 Introduction; A.2 Terrorist Autobiographies; Appendix B Methodological Appendix; B.1 Case Selection; B.2 Sources; Bibliography; Index.