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This cohesive set of case studies collects scholarly research, policy evaluation, and field experience to explain how terrorist groups have developed into criminal enterprises.
Terrorist groups have evolved from orthodox global insurgents funded by rogue sponsors into nimble and profitable transnational criminal enterprises whose motivations are not always evident. This volume seeks to explain how and why terrorist groups are often now criminal enterprises through 12 case studies of terrorist criminal enterprises written by authors who have derived their expertise on terrorism and/or organized crime from diverse sources. Terrorist groups have been chosen from different regions to provide the global coverage.
Chapters describe and analyze the actors, actions, problems, and collaborations of specific terrorist criminal enterprises. Other elements discussed include links to such facilitating conditions as political culture, corruption, history, economy, and issues of governance. This work advances scholarship in the field of counterterrorism by expanding the understanding of these terrorist groups as entities not driven purely by ideology but rather by the criminal enterprises with which they often coincide.
Table des matières
Foreword by Christopher A. KojmAcknowledgmentsTerminology and Abbreviations1 An Introduction to Terrorist Criminal Enterprises
Kimberley L. Thachuk and Rollie Lal2 The Gangsterization of Terrorism
Kimberley L. Thachuk3 Da'esh in Iraq and Syria: Terrorist Criminal Enterprise
Colin P. Clarke and Phil Williams4 Da'esh and Al-Qaida in Europe
Rollie Lal5 The Industry of Terror: Criminal Financing of the North Caucasus Insurgency
Yuliya Zabyelina6 The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC): A Transnational Criminal-Insurgent-Terror Phenomenon
Max G. Manwaring7 Boko Haram and al-Shabaab: Adaptable Criminal Financing amid Expanded Terror
Omar S. Mahmood8 The Haqqani Network: Gangster Jihadists
Kimberley L. Thachuk9 The Evolution of the PKK into a Criminal Enterprise
Mahmut Cengiz and Süleyman Özeren10 Hezbollah: The Continuing Expansion of a Robust Criminal Enterprise
Rhea D. Siers11 Cashing in on Fragility: Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and Crime in the Sahelo-Saharan Region
Audra Grant12 The Abu Sayyaf Group: A Destructive Duality
Richard T. Oakley13 Policy Options: Combating Terrorist Criminal Enterprises
Rollie LalAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex
A propos de l'auteur
Kimberley L. Thachuk is currently a senior research fellow in the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University. Previously she was a visiting professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. Dr. Thachuk has published widely on International crime, terrorism, and other transnational threats to U.S. national security.
Rollie Lal, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the College of Security Studies at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is an expert on strategy, international politics, and organized crime, and has written on a wide variety of issues related to India, China, Iran, Central Asia, North Africa, and political Islam. She is a co-author of The Muslim World after 9/11 (2004) and America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq (2003). She is also the author of Central Asia and Its Asian Neighbors: Security and Commerce at the Crossroads (2006) and articles in Orbis, the Atlantic Monthly, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, San Diego Sun Tribune, and Daily Yomiuri.
