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Radical, religious, and violent : the new economics of terrorism /
How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious groups dedicated to piety and charity. Yet once they turned to violence, they became horribly potent, executing campaigns of terrorism deadlier than those...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why are religious terrorists so lethal? Hezbollah
- The Taliban
- Hamas
- The lethality of religious radicals
- What motivates terrorists? The afterlife and other myths
- Terrorist organizations, why so few?
- Internal economies and organizational efficiency
- What's coming?
- The defection constraint
- Origins of the Taliban
- trade routes and defection
- Coordinated assault
- Terrorism and defection: Hamas
- The Jewish underground: terrorists who overreached
- Hezbollah and suicide attacks
- The Mahdi army in Iraq
- Sects, prohibitions, and mutual aid: the organizational secrets of religious radicals
- Prohibitions and sacrifices: the benign puzzles
- Where are the dads?
- Mutual aid
- Prohibitions and clubs
- Evidence
- Fertility
- Pronatalist prohibitions
- Radical Islam and fertility
- Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice: Subsidized sacrifice
- Madrassas
- Subsidized prohibitions and fertility
- How many radical Islamists?
- The Hamas model: why religious radicals are such effective terrorists: The "Hamas model"
- Origins of the model
- Hamas
- Social Service provision by the Taliban, Hezbollah, and al-Sadr
- Why religious radicals are such lethal terrorists
- Terrorist clubs
- Evidence
- When terrorists fail
- Clubs and violence without religion
- Gratuitous cruelty
- Objections
- Why suicide attacks?
- Rebels, insurgents, and terrorists
- Suicide attacks
- Evidence
- Coreligionists are soft targets
- Clubs
- Alternative explanations
- The future of suicide attacks
- Constructive counterterrorism: How terrorist clubs succeed
- Constructive counterterrorism
- What's wrong with the old-fashioned methods?
- Where to start?
- The Malayan Precedent
- Religious radicals and violence in the modern world: Radical Christians, benign and violent
- The supernatural and credibility
- Markets and denominations
- Jewish and Muslim denominations
- What's wrong with religion in government? Competition and pluralism
- Not about us
- What's our role?
- Analytical Appendix: The defection constraint
- Clubs, loyalty, and outside options
- Suicide attacks vs. hard targets
- Protecting hard targets by improving outside options.