Tricia Bacon, Elizabeth Grimm

Terror in Transition

Leadership and Succession in Terrorist Organizations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of how religious terrorist groups manage and adapt to major shifts in leadership. It argues that how successors position themselves in terms of the founder shapes a terrorist groupâ s future course and examines how and why different types of successors choose to pursue incremental or discontinuous change.

Produktdetails

• Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780231192255
• ISBN-10: 0231192258
• Artikelnr.: 63199502

Autorenporträt

Tricia L. Bacon and Elizabeth Grimm

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Literature Review and Research Design
2. Founders: Who Is a Founder, What Does He Do, and Who Comes Next?
3. The Second Ku Klux Klan: From Founder to Fixer
4. Egyptian Islamic Jihad: From Founder to Figureheads, to Fixer, to
Visionary
5. Al-Qaida in Iraq/the Islamic State of Iraq: From Founder to Signalers
6. Al-Shabaab: From Founder to Fixer, to Figurehead
7. Pathways and Possibilities: Lessons Learned from the Mini-Case Studies
Conclusion
Appendix A. Religious Terrorist Groups
Appendix B. Summary of Mini-Case Study Data
Notes
Bibliography
Index