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Index
Acknowledgments
vii
1 Introduction
1
1.1 The Challenge of Organizing Terror
3
1.2 The Terrorist’s Dilemma
4
1.3 Why Understanding Hierarchy and Control Matters
10
1.4 What About 9/11?
13
1.5 Are Terrorist Organizations Really So Familiar?
15
1.6 Can We Treat Terrorist Organizations as Rational?
18
1.7 Plan of the Book
22
2 The Terrorist’s Dilemma
26
2.1 Introduction
26
2.2 Why Preference Divergence?
34
2.3 How Groups Respond to Preference Divergence
49
2.4 The Difficult Challenge of Balancing Security with Efficiency and Control
56
2.5 Conclusion
61
3 The Insider’s View on Terrorist Organizations
63
3.1 Organizing Terror
63
3.2 Data
65
3.3 Quantitative Analysis
68
3.4 Content Analysis: Some Good Stories
70
3.5 Conclusion
81
4 Organizing Al-Qa’ida in Iraq’s Operations and Finances
82
4.1 Introduction
82
4.2 A Brief History of al-Qa’ida in Iraq
85
4.3 Managing AQI
89
4.4 Conclusion
98
5 The Tradeoffs
101
5.1 Introduction
101
5.2 Managing Terrorist Funds: The Security-Efficiency Tradeoff
103
5.3 Managing Terrorist Violence: The Security-Control Tradeoff
114
5.4 Discussion
127
6 Uncertainty and Control in Russia
131
6.1 Introduction
131
6.2 A Brief History of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Terrorism
132
6.3 A History of Pre-Revolutionary Terrorism
137
6.4 Uncertainty and Patterns of Control
151
6.5 Other Aspects of Russian Terrorism
160
6.6 Conclusion
167
7 Discrimination and Control in Ireland
169
7.1 Introduction
169
7.2 Discrimination and Patterns of Violence
171
7.3 Measuring Control
175
7.4 The Provisional IRA
176
7.5 The Loyalist Paramilitaries
191
7.6 Conclusion
202
8 Preference Divergence and Control in Palestine
205
8.1 Introduction
205
8.2 Fatah: The Challenges of Integration
209
8.3 Hamas
226
8.4 Control in Fatah and Hamas
239
8.5 Conclusion
247
9 Conclusion and Recommendations
249
9.1 Summary of the Argument
249
9.2 Exploiting Organizational Vulnerabilities
254
9.3 Conclusion
270
Appendix A Annotated Bibliography of Terrorist Autobiographies
272
A.1 Introduction
272
A.2 Terrorist Autobiographies
273
Appendix B Methodological Appendix
303
B.1 Case Selection
303
B.2 Sources
305
Bibliography
307
Index
323
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