Terrorist's Dilemma Managing Violent Covert Organizations

Name: Terrorist's Dilemma Managing Violent Covert Organizations
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ISBN: 9780691157214

ISBN-10: 0691157219

ISBN-13: 9780691157214

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jacob N. Shapiro

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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 Dilemma is 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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/16/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 0.10" wide x 0.10" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Challenge of Organizing Terror



The Terrorist's Dilemma



Why Understanding Hierarchy and Control Matters



What About 9/11?



Are Terrorist Organizations Really So Familiar?



Can We Treat Terrorist Organizations as Rational?



Plan of the Book



The Terrorist's Dilemma



Introduction



Why Preference Divergence?



How Groups Respond to Preference Divergence



The Difficult Challenge of Balancing Security with Efficiency and Control



Conclusion



The Insider's View on Terrorist Organizations



Organizing Terror



Data



Quantitative Analysis



Content Analysis: Some Good Stories



Conclusion



Organizing Al-Qa'ida in Iraq's Operations and Finances



Introduction



A Brief History of al-Qa'ida in Iraq



Managing AQI



Conclusion



The Tradeoffs



Introduction



Managing Terrorist Funds: The Security-Efficiency Tradeoff



Managing Terrorist Violence: The Security-Control Tradeoff



Discussion



Uncertainty and Control in Russia



Introduction



A Brief History of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Terrorism



A History of Pre-Revolutionary Terrorism



Uncertainty and Patterns of Control



Other Aspects of Russian Terrorism



Conclusion



Discrimination and Control in Ireland



Introduction



Discrimination and Patterns of Violence



Measuring Control



The Provisional LRA



The Loyalist Paramilitaries



Conclusion



Preference Divergence and Control in Palestine



Introduction



Fatah: The Challenges of Integration



Hamas



Control in Fatah and Hamas



Conclusion



Conclusion and Recommendations



Summary of the Argument



Exploiting Organizational Vulnerabilities



Conclusion



Annotated Bibliography of Terrorist Autobiographies



Introduction



Terrorist Autobiographies



Methodological Appendix



Case Selection



Sources


Bibliography


Index