Intersections of Crime and Terror

ISBN-13: 9780415639613 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 192 str.

James J. F. Forest

Opis

During the last ten years an increasing number of government and media reports, scholarly books and journal articles, and other publications have focused our attention on the expanded range of interactions between international organized crime and terrorist networks. A majority of these interactions have been in the form of temporary organizational alliances surrounding a specific type of transaction or resource exchange, like document fraud or smuggling humans, drugs or weapons across a particular border. This book contains broad conceptual pieces, historical analyses, and case studies that highlight different facets of the intersection between crime and terrorism.

Spis treści

1. Criminals and Terrorists: An Introduction  James J.F. Forest  2. Osama bin Corleone? Vito the Jackal? Framing Threat Convergence through an Examination of Transnational Organized Crime and International Terrorism  John T. Picarelli  3. When Politicians Sell Drugs: Examining Why Middle East Ethnopolitical Organizations are Involved in the Drug Trade  Victor Asal, Kathleen Deloughery and Brian J. Phillips  4. The Opium Trade and Patterns of Terrorism in the Provinces of Afghanistan: An Empirical Analysis  James Piazza  5. Surreptitious Lifelines: A Comparative Analysis of the FARC and the PKK  Vera Eccarius-Kelly  6. The Terrorism Debate Over Mexican Drug Trafficking Violence  Phil Williams  7. Terrorists Next Door? A Comparison of Mexican Drug Cartels and Middle Eastern Terrorist Organizations  Shawn Teresa Flanigan  8. Terrorist and Non-Terrorist Criminal Attacks by Radical Environmental and Animal Rights Groups in the United States, 1970-2007  Jennifer Varriale Carson, Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan  9. Fluctuations Between Crime and Terror: The Case of Abu Sayyaf’s Kidnapping Activities  McKenzie O’Brien  10. Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Crime and Terror  Thomas J. Holt

O autorze

James J. F. Forest is associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and senior fellow at Joint Special Operations University. He is the former director of terrorism studies at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, and has published dozens of books, articles and commentary about terrorism and counterterrorism.