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, 2021 This chapter discusses how General Stanley McChrystal’s Special Operations Task Force nearly decimated al-Qaida in Iraq. It describes how the advent and implementation of the find, fix, finish, exploit, and analyze cycle was instrumental in dismantling the terrorist group.
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Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria
Strategic Management Journal, Volume 45, Issue 6, Page 1061-1086, June 2024.Abstract Research Summary During armed conflicts, when the rule of law collapses, bribery often becomes prevalent. Yet, the effect of bribery on firm performance under those circumstances remains unclear. Bribery could provide access to scarce resources, but it could also be the result of extortion.
Stefan Dimitriadis
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Terrorism Bookshelf: Top 150 Books on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Perspectives on Terrorism, 2012 Terrorist rebellions, in all their configurations, constitute first order national security threats facing the international community. This was especially the case following September 2001, when al Qaida demonstrated that it had world class ambitions to
Joshua Sinai
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Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 217-240, June 2024.Abstract Within the context of eliciting partner country cooperation and interests alignment, U.S. presidents and their administrations have a wide array of policy tools at their disposal to mitigate terrorist threats emanating from other countries. Yet, the factors that account for variation in American presidents' and their administrations' specific ...
Amira Jadoon +2 more
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A Struggle for Power:Al Nusra and Al Qaida in Syria
, 2020 Relying on interviews with members of the organization, the article argues (contrary to the prevailing view) that Al Nusra never split from Al Qaida and even more so from the global jihadist movement.
Giustozzi, Antonio; id_orcid
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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2024.Abstract In response to the increase in ideological and non‐ideological mass killings, mental health professionals are beginning to invest in prevention and intervention in violent radicalization situations. The psychological and psychiatric literature proposes multiple psychological theories describing the individual factors at play in the process of ...
Christian Desmarais, Cécile Rousseau
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Der wachsende Einfluss von Al-Qaida auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent
, 2011 Al-Qaeda’s influence in Africa is growing. From 2009 to 2011, activity by Al-Qaeda was noted in 19 African nations and regions. Four regional Al-Qaeda organizations operate on the continent, which in turn often have several sub-organizations: the ...
Hans Krech
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Journal of Strategic Security, 2018 The paper attempts to demonstrate that all of the perpetrators of the grave terrorist attacks in Europe in the recent years have been connected—by one or maximum two links—to the center and leadership of ISIS in Syria, from whom they received ideological,
Agnes Hankiss
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, 2011 This paper looks at al-Qaida and the nearly decade of war through concepts offered by a scientific paradigm called complexity theory. The networks, organization and ideology of al-Qaida in this paper are described in terms of complex adaptive systems ...
Dyborn, Carl
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Health Economics, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 21-40, January 2024.Abstract How does terrorism affect child mortality? We use geo‐coded data on terrorism and spatially disaggregated data on child mortality to study the relationship between both variables for 52 African countries between 2000 and 2017 at the 0.5 × 0.5° grid level. Our estimates suggest that moderate increases in terrorism are linked to several thousand
Daniel Meierrieks, Max Schaub
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