Terrornomics

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Mr David Gold, Professor Sean S Costigan
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Feb 28, 2013 - Political Science - 246 pages

Today, no single issue dominates the global political landscape as much as terrorism. Aware of their unique position in the newly unipolar world, terrorist leaders have articulated that economic warfare is a key component of the new terrorist agenda. Governments have accentuated the role of economic tools in their counter-terrorism policies while maintaining emphasis on the application of military force, or 'hard power', even though such tools often prove unnecessarily blunt or even sorely inadequate. Given the complexity of the global threat posed by modern transnational terrorist groups, combating terrorism with a mix of 'hard' and 'soft power' is more important than ever.

As an invaluable new book in terrorism studies, Terrornomics brings together contributions from renowned international scholars and practitioners to provide a multifaceted view of contemporary financial counterterrorism and terrorist funding efforts. It employs key concepts, terms, case studies and policy recommendations to advance our understanding of the threats and possible courses of action, thus enabling us to grasp the critical financial and economic issues while providing potential counterterrorist strategies.

 

Contents

Notes
Introduction
How the
How Terrorism is Financed and the Nexusof Terrorist andCriminal Organizations
3Substantiating the Nexus between Diaspora Groups andthe Financing ofTerrorism
An Analysis of the Role of the Iranian Diaspora in the Financial
6The United States Small Arms andTerrorism
Terrorists
Free Trade andTerrorism
Policies
Institutionalized Responses to 911
Rico Carisch 11 Using Sanctionsto Fight Terrorism
12The Brittle Superpower
Glossary
Index
Copyright

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Sean S. Costigan is Project Leader at MIT CogNet, USA. David Gold is Associate Professor of International Affairs at GPIA, The New School, USA.

Sean S. Costigan, Loretta Napoleoni, Rachel Ehrenfeld, Michel Hess, Mark Edmond Clark, William D. Hartung, Frida Berrigan, Rachel Stohl, Rockford Weitz, Stacy Reiter Neal, Katherine Barbieri, Swapna Pathak, Rico Carisch, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Thomas Moll, Stephen E. Flynn.

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