Countering the Financing of Terrorism

Name: Countering the Financing of Terrorism
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ISBN: 9780415396431

ISBN-10: 0415396433

ISBN-13: 9780415396431

Edition: 2007

Authors: Thomas J. Biersteker, Sue E. Eckert

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At present, no single source provides a comprehensive overview of the financing of terrorism, its methods and regulation. With three years of experience in the global effort to cut off terrorist funding, this volume offers a much-needed analysis of a complex, widely discussed, yet poorly understood subject. While a number of sensational and poorly documented books have been published on terrorism with sections devoted to terrorist financing, this is the first high-level scholarly, analytically sophisticated overview of terrorist financing. It brings together prominent experts and scholars with practitioners to provide a critical assessment of the international effort to date in restricting…

Book details

Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of contributors


Preface and acknowledgements


List of abbreviations



Introduction: the challenge of terrorist financing




The social organization of terrorism



Producing terror: organizational dynamics of survival




The evolution of al Qaeda




The social organization of terror in Southeast Asia: the case of Jemaah Islamiyah




The financial organization of terrorism: the raising and movement of funds



Terrorism, charities and diasporas: contrasting the fundraising practices of Hamas and al Qaeda among Muslims in Europe




Terrorist financing and organized crime: nexus, appropriation, or transformation?




Trade diversion as a fund raising and money laundering technique of terrorist organizations




The design, development, and implementation of regulatory and supervisory frameworks for informal funds transfer systems




Al Qaeda and the gemstone trade




Responses to the terrorist financing challenge



The US regulatory approach to terrorist financing




International initiatives to combat the financing of terrorism




Lessons for countering terrorist financing from the war on serious and organized crime




Conclusion: taking stock of efforts to counter the financing of terrorism and recommendations for the way forward



Bibliography


Index