Coalitions Between Terrorist Organizations

Revolutionaries, Nationalists and Islamists
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14358-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 898 g

This volume proposes some theories on the conditions that favor the formation of coalitions between terrorist organizations, and how they function within the changing international system. These theories are tested against empirical data on actual cooperation between European and Palestinian terrorist organizations from 1968 to 1990, and cooperation between European left-wing terrorist organizations (the phenomenon known as Euro-terrorism) from 1984 to 1988. These findings form the basis of a broader theory concerning cooperation and coalitions between organizations involved in international terrorism. Finally, an attempt is made to verify whether the new terrorist players driven, at least theoretically, by religious motivation, will imitate the behavior of the ideological or nationalist organizations, and to test whether the theories concerning cooperation and coalitions developed in this volume apply to the new reality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karmon, Ely

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments;
Preface;
About the Author;
Introduction;
1. Theoretical Framework and Research Paradigm;
2. Variables and Research Hypotheses;
3. Germany – Radical Left-Wing Organizations;
4. Italy – The Red Brigades;
5. France – Action Directe;
6. Euro-Terrorism (1984-88);
7. Italy – Radical Right-Wing Organizations;
8. Spain – The ETA;
9. The Palestinian Terrorist Organizations;
10. Testing the Hypotheses;
11. The Islamist Networks;
Conclusion;
Abbreviations;
Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Ely Karmon is a Senior Research Scholar at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), an internationally renowed think-tank based at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He lectures on terrorism and guerrilla warfare at the IDC. He has written extensively on international terrorism, WMD terrorism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, state-sponsored terrorism, and terrorism in Turkey. He is an advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Defence and a member of the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute's (UNICRI) International Permanent Observatory on Security Measures During Major Events.