Price Targeting Top Terrorists

Understanding Leadership Removal in Counterterrorism Strategy
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54772-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare

Bryan C. Price offers a data-driven examination of leadership decapitation tactics in counterterrorism. Analyzing hundreds of cases of leadership turnover from over two hundred terrorist groups, Price demonstrates that the loss of top leaders significantly reduces terror groups’ life spans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Price, Bryan C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Organizations and Leaders
3. Leadership in Terrorist Organizations
4. Quantitative Analysis of Leadership Decapitation in Terrorist Groups
5. The Effects of Leadership Decapitation on Hamas
6. Conclusion: Policy Implications and Future Research
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bryan C. Price is the founding executive director of the Buccino Leadership Institute at Seton Hall University. During a twenty-year career as an Army officer, he served in various command and staff positions, including combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. From 2012 to 2018, he directed the Combating Terrorism Center and served as an Academy Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.