The Terrorist's Dilemma - Shapiro, Jacob N.
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This 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 how their political goals interact with the operational environment to push them to organize in particular ways. 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.…mehr

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This 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 how their political goals interact with the operational environment to push them to organize in particular ways. 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.
Autorenporträt
Jacob N. Shapiro is associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and codirects the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project.
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"Shapiro explores the management of such groups with considerable rigor, beginning with the nineteenth-century Russian progenitors of contemporary terrorist groups and ending with al Qaeda." - Foreign Affairs