The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations

by Jacob N. Shapiro

Book Overview

How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit? The Terrorist's Dilemma is the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups are structured. Employing a broad range of agency theory, historical case studies, and terrorists' own internal documents, Jacob Shapiro provocatively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691166307
• ISBN13: 9780691166308
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"