Understanding Terrorist Innovation

Author : Adam Dolnik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134098248

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This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical trends in terrorist innovation, as well as the critical factors responsible for the differences in practices among terrorist organizations. The first part of the book provides an overview of the tactics and technology used by terrorists in the last century and identifies the key trends for the future. The second part compares four differing terrorist organizations with the aim of identifying key factors in producing innovative tactics and weaponry. The volume provides a historical explanation of the trends in terrorist innovation and also has policy relevance, as the ability to identify signature characteristics of innovation-prone terrorist organizations is a critical element in predictive threat assessment. Understanding Terrorist Innovation will be of great interest to students of terrorism studies, security studies and political science in general.

Author : Adam Dolnik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0415759684

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Understanding Terrorist Innovation by Adam Dolnik Pdf

This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical trends in terrorist innovation, as well as the critical factors responsible for the differences in practices among terrorist organizations. The first part of the book provides an overview of the tactics and technology used by terrorists in the last century and identifies the key trends for the future. The second part compares four differing terrorist organizations with the aim of identifying key factors in producing innovative tactics and weaponry. The volume provides a historical explanation of the trends in terrorist innovation and also has policy relevance, as the ability to identify signature characteristics of innovation-prone terrorist organizations is a critical element in predictive threat assessment. Understanding Terrorist Innovation will be of great interest to students of terrorism studies, security studies and political science in general.

Author : Magnus Ranstorp,Magnus Normark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317538059

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Understanding Terrorism Innovation and Learning by Magnus Ranstorp,Magnus Normark Pdf

This book examines the role of terrorist innovation and learning in theory and practice, and in the context of three specific EU case-studies. It is often said that terrorist groups are relatively conservative in character operating in a technological vacuum – relying almost exclusively on bombs and bullets. This observation masks increasing complexity and creativity and innovation within terrorist groups and one of the most distinguishing features of al-Qaeda’s terrorist operations is its propensity for remarkable innovation. This book examines how and why terrorist groups innovate more generally and al-Qaeda-related terrorist plots in Europe more specifically. The starting point for this book was twofold. Firstly to examine the issue of innovation and learning more generically both in theory, within specific themes and within the context of al-Qaeda’s influence on this process. Secondly, this book examines the evolution of specific al-Qaeda-related plots in three specific northern EU states – the United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany - where there has been a significant volume of planned, failed and executed terrorist plots. In particular, these case studies explore signs of innovation and learning. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and counter-terrorism, political violence, security studies and IR in general.

Author : Adam Dolnik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415609302

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Conducting Terrorism Field Research by Adam Dolnik Pdf

This book offers a detailed and practically oriented guide to the challenges of conducting terrorist fieldwork. The past decade has seen an explosion of research into terrorism. However, field research on terrorism has traditionally been surrounded by many myths, and has been called anything from "necessary" and "crucial" to "dangerous", "unethical" and "impossible". While there is an increasing interest among terrorism specialists in conducting such research, there is no single volume providing prospective field researchers with a guideline to such work. Conducting Terrorism Field Research aims to fill this gap and offers a collection of articles from experienced authors representing different risk groups, disciplines, methodological approaches, regional specializations, and other context-specific aspects. Each contributor provides a road-map to their own research, describing planning and preparation phases, the formalities involved in getting into conflict zones and gaining access to sources. The end product is a 'how to' guide to field research on terrorism, which will be of much value to terrorism experts and novices alike. This book will be of much interest to students and researchers of terrorism studies, war and conflict studies, criminology, IR and security studies.

Author : Adam Dolnik,Keith M. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124080131

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Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists by Adam Dolnik,Keith M. Fitzgerald Pdf

Illuminates the role of negotiation in resolving terrorist barricade hostage crises.If one assumes that negotiation is only about bargaining, making deals, or concessions, then of course we should not negotiate with terrorists, as this action is likely to ultimately lead to some rewards for their bad behavior. However, if one understands that negotiation, ultimately, is the use of communication to exercise influence in order to change someone's thinking, behavior and decision making, the

Author : Adam Dolnik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134098255

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Understanding Terrorist Innovation by Adam Dolnik Pdf

This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical trends in terrorist innovation, as well as the critical factors responsible for the differences in practices among terrorist organizations. The first part of the book provides an overview of the tactics and technology used by terrorists in the last century and identifies the key trends for the future. The second part compares four differing terrorist organizations with the aim of identifying key factors in producing innovative tactics and weaponry. The volume provides a historical explanation of the trends in terrorist innovation and also has policy relevance, as the ability to identify signature characteristics of innovation-prone terrorist organizations is a critical element in predictive threat assessment. Understanding Terrorist Innovation will be of great interest to students of terrorism studies, security studies and political science in general.

Author : Audrey Kurth Cronin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190882167

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Power to the People by Audrey Kurth Cronin Pdf

Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence) to ordinary people has given them access to weapons of mass violence previously monopolized by the state. In recent years, states have attempted to stem the flow of such weapons to individuals and non-state groups, but their efforts are failing. As Audrey Kurth Cronin explains in Power to the People, what we are seeing now is an exacerbation of an age-old trend. Over the centuries, the most surprising developments in warfare have occurred because of advances in technologies combined with changes in who can use them. Indeed, accessible innovations in destructive force have long driven new patterns of political violence. When Nobel invented dynamite and Kalashnikov designed the AK-47, each inadvertently spurred terrorist and insurgent movements that killed millions and upended the international system. That history illuminates our own situation, in which emerging technologies are altering society and redistributing power. The twenty-first century "sharing economy" has already disrupted every institution, including the armed forces. New "open" technologies are transforming access to the means of violence. Just as importantly, higher-order functions that previously had been exclusively under state military control - mass mobilization, force projection, and systems integration - are being harnessed by non-state actors. Cronin closes by focusing on how to respond so that we both preserve the benefits of emerging technologies yet reduce the risks. Power, in the form of lethal technology, is flowing to the people, but the same technologies that empower can imperil global security - unless we act strategically.

Author : Magnus Ranstorp,Magnus Normark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317538042

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Understanding Terrorism Innovation and Learning by Magnus Ranstorp,Magnus Normark Pdf

This book examines the role of terrorist innovation and learning in theory and practice, and in the context of three specific EU case-studies. It is often said that terrorist groups are relatively conservative in character operating in a technological vacuum – relying almost exclusively on bombs and bullets. This observation masks increasing complexity and creativity and innovation within terrorist groups and one of the most distinguishing features of al-Qaeda’s terrorist operations is its propensity for remarkable innovation. This book examines how and why terrorist groups innovate more generally and al-Qaeda-related terrorist plots in Europe more specifically. The starting point for this book was twofold. Firstly to examine the issue of innovation and learning more generically both in theory, within specific themes and within the context of al-Qaeda’s influence on this process. Secondly, this book examines the evolution of specific al-Qaeda-related plots in three specific northern EU states – the United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany - where there has been a significant volume of planned, failed and executed terrorist plots. In particular, these case studies explore signs of innovation and learning. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and counter-terrorism, political violence, security studies and IR in general.

Author : The Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511658258

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Terrorist Innovations in Weapons of Mass Effect by The Defense Threat Reduction Agency Pdf

Innovation is a constant feature of terrorism, yet little is known about how terrorists innovate, the factors that drive them to innovate, and the indicators that could help predict their trajectory toward innovation. On August 5-6, 2010, experts gathered for a workshop sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Advanced Systems and Concepts Office (DTRA-ASCO), to discuss the preconditions, causes, and predictive indicators associated with terrorist innovation in weapons of mass effect (WMEs).1 They presented their research findings on seven historical and contemporary cases of terrorist innovation, ranging from airplane hijackings by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) to the current threat emanating from Al-Qaeda's mass casualty attacks. These case studies generated a number of generalizations about what motivates innovation, how terrorists come to innovate, and whether it is possible to anticipate innovations in WME terrorism. The experts assessed three categories of terrorist innovation: tactical, strategic, and organizational, with emphasis placed on the first two. Tactical innovation usually involves inventing or adopting new techniques or technologies to achieve unchanging objectives. Strategic innovation entails formulating new objectives, which necessitate the adoption of new operations, targets, or technologies to advance those objectives. Organizational innovation involves new ways of structuring the terrorist group or inventive methods of drawing recruits.

Author : Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786608796

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How Terror Evolves by Yannick Veilleux-Lepage Pdf

This book contextualizes the use of terror as part of wider movements of political contention, demonstrating that terroristic innovation occurs as part of wider historical processes rather than in a vacuum. Drawing on evolutionary theory, this study explains how terroristic groups innovate upon, transform, and abandon techniques of political violence in order to advance their causes against the state. The book further traces the processes through which the use of aircraft as weapons of destruction developed, from the first instances of aircraft hijacking in 1930s Peru, through Palestinian terrorism in the 1960s and 1970s, up to its adoption by al-Qaeda in the 1990s and leading to the 9/11 attack in 2001. This examination provides an essential focus on the techniques through which terror is achieved, offering a novel understanding of the mechanisms of political violence and the implications of counterterrorism on the evolution of terrorism

Author : Walter Reich
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0943875897

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Origins of Terrorism by Walter Reich Pdf

On the psychological aspects of terrorism and suicide bombing.

Author : Gary LaFree,Laura Dugan,Erin Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134712410

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Putting Terrorism in Context by Gary LaFree,Laura Dugan,Erin Miller Pdf

This book offers a guide to interpreting available statistical data on terrorism attacks around the world. The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) now includes more than 113,000 terrorist attacks, starting in 1970. By analyzing these data, researchers demonstrate how a very small number of terrorist attacks have had an outsized effect on attitudes and policies toward terrorism. These attacks, referred to as ‘black swan’ events, are difficult to predict but have an enormous impact on human affairs for years to come. The book discusses terrorist attacks, such as 9/11, possibly the most high profile ‘black swan’ event in living memory, by putting them into context with thousands of less publicized attacks that have plagued the world since 1970. Historically, the study of terrorism has suffered from a general lack of empirical data and statistical analysis. This is largely due to the difficulty of obtaining valid data on a topic that poses significant collection challenges. However, this book makes use of the fact that the GTD is currently the most extensive unclassified database on terrorism ever collected. While there have been summaries of the research literature on terrorism and important analyses of international terrorism event data, this is the first book that provides a comprehensive empirical overview of the nature and evolution of both modern international and domestic terrorism. This book will be of interest to students of terrorism and political violence, criminology, international security, and political science in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Terrorism
ISBN : 1847269400

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Countering the Terrorist Threat by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian Lesser,John Arquilla,Bruce Hoffman,David F. Ronfeldt,Michele Zanini
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833032560

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Countering the New Terrorism by Ian Lesser,John Arquilla,Bruce Hoffman,David F. Ronfeldt,Michele Zanini Pdf

Traces the recent evolution of international terrorism against civilian and U.S. military targets, looks ahead to where terrorism is going, and assesses how it might be contained. The authors consider the threat of information-based terrorism and of weapons of mass destruction, with an emphasis on how changes in the sources and nature of terrorism may affect the use of unconventional terror. The authors propose counterterrorism strategies that address the growing problem of homeland defense.

Author : Jeffrey D. Simon
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781633882379

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Lone Wolf Terrorism by Jeffrey D. Simon Pdf

Originally published in hardback in 2013.