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 Dilemmais the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups a...

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1. Verfasser:	Shapiro, Jacob N
Format:	E-Book Buch
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 2013
Ausgabe:	1
Schlagworte:	Activism Afghanistan African National Congress Al-Qaeda Assassination Blackmail Bolsheviks BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior Case study Ceasefire Central Committee Combatant Counter-terrorism Covert operation Cross-cultural studies Defection Disadvantage Economics Eli Berman Employment FARC Fatah Front de libération du Québec General- Psychology Gerry Adams Guerrilla warfare Hamas History Ideology Industrial & Organizational Psychology- Business & Economics Inference Informant Insurgency Intelligence agency International Relations Interrogation Irgun Islamic terrorism Islamism Israeli–Palestinian conflict Jemaah Islamiyah Jihadism Literature Management & Organizational Behavior Memoir Mia Bloom Military operation Moral hazard MPLA Narodnaya Volya Official Irish Republican Army Operations security Organizational behavior Organizational Behavior- Jpwl- Jps- Kju Organized crime Palestine Liberation Organization Paramilitary Polish Underground State POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism Politician Politics Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Principal–agent problem Probability Provisional Irish Republican Army Psychology PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology Radicalization Real Irish Republican Army Red Army Faction Requirement Salary Suicide attack Terrorism Terrorism > Political aspects Terrorism- Political Science Terrorists The Troubles Trade-off Ulster Defence Association Uncertainty Violent crimes Vulnerability War World War II Zionism Hamas Military operation Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Intelligence agency Covert operation Counter-terrorism Combatant Radicalization FARC Front de libération du Québec Politician Political science Defection Official Irish Republican Army Ideology Interrogation Ceasefire Economics Activism Literature Principal–agent problem Memoir Trade-off Insurgency Inference Suicide attack Vulnerability Case study Requirement Jihadism Disadvantage Mia Bloom Zionism Guerrilla warfare Moral hazard World War II Salary Uncertainty Islamism Afghanistan Assassination The Troubles War Bolsheviks Al-Qaeda African National Congress Red Army Faction Polish Underground State Employment Ulster Defence Association Eli Berman Informant Narodnaya Volya Jemaah Islamiyah Terrorism Islamic terrorism Fatah Paramilitary Probability Israeli–Palestinian conflict Gerry Adams Real Irish Republican Army Irgun Blackmail Palestine Liberation Organization Central Committee Politics Provisional Irish Republican Army MPLA Operations security
ISBN:	9780691157214, 9780691166308, 0691157219, 0691166307, 9781400848645, 1400848644
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Zusammenfassung:	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 Dilemmais 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 to push them to organize in particular ways. Shapiro provides a historically informed explanation for why some groups have little hierarchy, while others resemble miniature firms, complete with line charts and written disciplinary codes. Looking at groups in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, he highlights how consistent and widespread the terrorist's dilemma--balancing the desire to maintain control with the need for secrecy--has been since the 1880s. Through an analysis of more than a hundred terrorist autobiographies he shows how prevalent bureaucracy has been, and he utilizes a cache of internal documents from al-Qa'ida in Iraq to outline why this deadly group used so much paperwork to handle its people. Tracing the strategic interaction between terrorist leaders and their operatives, Shapiro closes with a series of comparative case studies, indicating that the differences in how groups in the same conflict approach their dilemmas are consistent with an agency theory perspective. The Terrorist's Dilemmademonstrates the management constraints inherent to terrorist groups and sheds light on specific organizational details that can be exploited to more efficiently combat terrorist activity.
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	9780691157214 9780691166308 0691157219 0691166307 9781400848645 1400848644
DOI:	10.1515/9781400848645