Terrorism, security and the power of informal networks
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Terrorism, security and the power of informal networks
Edward Elgar, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
This innovative work examines the concept of the informal network and its practical utility within the context of counterterrorism. Drawing together a range of practitioner and academic expertise it explores the character and evolution of informal networks, addressing the complex relationship between kinship groups, transnational linkages and the role that globalization and new technologies play in their formation and sustainability. By analysing the informal branch of networked organization in the context of security policy-making, the chapters in this book seek to address three questions: a?c how do informal networks operate? a?c which combination of factors draws individuals to form such networks?a?c what are their structures? Informal networks are necessarily elusive owing to their ad hoc development, amorphous structures and cultural specificity but they are nonetheless pivotal to the way organizations conduct business. Identifying and manipulating such networks is central to effective policy-making. Terrorism, Security and the Power of Informal Networks argues that informal networks are important to policy-makers and their mastery is critical to success both in tackling the challenges of hostile networks and in the processes of organizational reform currently preoccupying governments. Practitioners, policy-makers and researchers in the fields of international politics, international relations, history and political science will find much to interest them in this timely resource.
目次
Contents:
Introduction
Ann Lane
PART I: INFORMAL NETWORKS
1. The Utility of Informal Networks to Policy-makers
Alexander Evans
2. Terrorist Networks: Strengths and Weaknesses
Peter Wilson
PART II: REGIONAL NETWORKS
3. Northern Ireland: Communal Division and the Embedding of Paramilitary Networks
Adrian Guelke
4. Informal Networks in North Africa
George Joffe
5. Iran: Informal Networks and Leadership Politics
Adam Goodman
6. How al-Qaeda Lost Iraq
Andrew Phillips
7. Informal Networks in Southeast Asia: The Case of Jemaah Islamiah and its Affiliates
David Martin Jones
PART III: DISRUPTING INFORMAL NETWORKS
8. Modeling Proliferation Networks
Bruno Gruselle
9. Small-world Networks, Violence and Global Distress
Francesc Badia
10. Hearts and Minds: Time to Think Differently?
Steve Tatham
11. Producing Terror: Organizational Dynamics of Survival
Jessica Stern and Amit Modi
Index
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