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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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Princeton, N.J
Princeton University Press
2013
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| ISBN: | 9780691157214, 9780691166308, 0691157219, 0691166307, 9781400848645, 1400848644 |
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- The terrorist's dilemma: managing violent covert organizations -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Terrorist’s Dilemma -- Chapter 3: The Insider’s View on Terrorist Organizations -- Chapter 4: Organizing Al-Qa’ida in Iraq’s Operations and Finances -- Chapter 5: The Tradeoffs -- Chapter 6: Uncertainty and Control in Russia -- Chapter 7: Discrimination and Control in Ireland -- Chapter 8: Preference Divergence and Control in Palestine -- Chapter 9: Conclusion and Recommendations -- Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography of Terrorist Autobiographies -- Appendix B: Methodological Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Front Matter Table of Contents Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1: Introduction CHAPTER 2: The Terrorist’s Dilemma CHAPTER 3: The Insider’s View on Terrorist Organizations CHAPTER 4: Organizing Al-Qa’ida in Iraq’s Operations and Finances CHAPTER 5: The Tradeoffs CHAPTER 6: Uncertainty and Control in Russia CHAPTER 7: Discrimination and Control in Ireland CHAPTER 8: Preference Divergence and Control in Palestine CHAPTER 9: Conclusion and Recommendations APPENDIX A APPENDIX B Bibliography Index
- 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
- 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 Organizations -- 3.1 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 Terrorism -- 6.3 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 Recommendations -- 9.1 Summary of the Argument
- Chapter 8. Preference Divergence and Control in Palestine
- Chapter 4. Organizing Al-Qa’ida in Iraq’s Operations and Finances
- Chapter 2. The Terrorist’s Dilemma
- Chapter 5. The Tradeoffs
- Index
- Chapter 3. The Insider’s View on Terrorist Organizations
- Appendix A. Annotated Bibliography of Terrorist Autobiographies
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- Chapter 7. Discrimination and Control in Ireland
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- Contents
- Chapter 9. Conclusion and Recommendations
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Frontmatter --
- Chapter 6. Uncertainty and Control in Russia
- Appendix B. Methodological Appendix
- Bibliography

