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019 _a(OCoLC)979632606
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020 _a9781400848645
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024 7 _a10.1515/9781400848645
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400848645
035 _a(DE-B1597)453954
035 _a(OCoLC)852756492
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050 4 _aHV6431
072 7 _aPOL037000
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082 0 4 _a322.4206
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aShapiro, Jacob N.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Terrorist's Dilemma :
_bManaging Violent Covert Organizations /
_cJacob N. Shapiro.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (352 p.) :
_b6 line illus. 8 tables.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tChapter 1. Introduction --
_tChapter 2. The Terrorist's Dilemma --
_tChapter 3. The Insider's View on Terrorist Organizations --
_tChapter 4. Organizing Al-Qa'ida in Iraq's Operations and Finances --
_tChapter 5. The Tradeoffs --
_tChapter 6. Uncertainty and Control in Russia --
_tChapter 7. Discrimination and Control in Ireland --
_tChapter 8. Preference Divergence and Control in Palestine --
_tChapter 9. Conclusion and Recommendations --
_tAppendix A. Annotated Bibliography of Terrorist Autobiographies --
_tAppendix B. Methodological Appendix --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aHow 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 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 Dilemma demonstrates the management constraints inherent to terrorist groups and sheds light on specific organizational details that can be exploited to more efficiently combat terrorist activity.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aTerrorism in mass media.
650 0 _aTerrorism
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aTerrorists.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism.
_2bisacsh
653 _aFatah.
653 _aHamas.
653 _aIslamist groups.
653 _aIslamist terrorism.
653 _aMiddle East.
653 _aNorthern Ireland.
653 _aPalestinian terrorist groups.
653 _aProvisional IRA.
653 _aRussian terrorist groups.
653 _aTsarist secret police.
653 _aUlster Defense Association.
653 _aUlster Volunteer Force.
653 _aagency problems.
653 _aagency theory.
653 _aal-Qa'ida in Iraq.
653 _aal-Qa'ida.
653 _abureaucracy.
653 _acontrol.
653 _acounterterror policies.
653 _acounterterrorism policies.
653 _adiscrimination.
653 _agroup-specific vulnerabilities.
653 _ahierarchy.
653 _ainternal dynamics.
653 _ainternal politics.
653 _amanagerial challenges.
653 _amanagerial problems.
653 _anegotiated settlement.
653 _aoperational management.
653 _aorganizational analysis.
653 _aorganizational challenges.
653 _aorganizational dynamics.
653 _aorganizational resources.
653 _apolitical goals.
653 _apreference divergence.
653 _asecrecy.
653 _asecular nationalist groups.
653 _asecurity reducing.
653 _asecurity risks.
653 _asecurity-control tradeoff.
653 _astrategic interactions.
653 _aterrorism.
653 _aterrorist activity.
653 _aterrorist group structure.
653 _aterrorist groups.
653 _aterrorist leaders.
653 _aterrorist operatives.
653 _aterrorist organizations.
653 _aterrorists.
653 _auncertainty.
653 _aviolence.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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