Introduction.- On Terrorism.- Terrorism as a Mode of Warfare.- The Economics of Terrorism.- Competition Between Homogeneous Terrorist Organizations: A General Model.- Al-Qaeda and Daesh: The Rise of the Islamic State.- Conclusion.
Nina Ismael is a consultant at BwConsulting, the in-house consultancy of the German Armed Forces. She has previously worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Microeconomics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Her research focuses on defense economics, the economics of national security, and industrial organization.