Understanding Terror Networks

Offering an incisive social analysis of the global wave of terrorist activity, a forensic psychiatrist and former foreign service officer looks at the history of the global violent Islamic movement led by al Qaeda, assessing the influence of complex social networks isolated from society, rather than ideological commitment, that transformed alienate

Autorentext
Marc Sageman, M.D., Ph.D., is a former foreign service officer who was based in Islamabad from 1987 to 1989, where he worked closely with Afghanistan's mujahedin. He has advised various branches of the U.S. government in the war on terror and is a forensic psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, D.C. His second book, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century, is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Klappentext
An international authority on the social psychology of terrorist groups examines the psychological profiles of 172 known terrorists to understand the specific social circumstances that lead individuals to enter terror networks.

Zusammenfassung
"In the late '80s, Sageman worked closely with Islamic fundamentalists during the Afghan-Soviet war and gained an intimate understanding of the development, form, and function of their networks. Sagemen wrote this book in order to dispel incorrect assertions about terrorist networks made by so-called experts."-Publishers Weekly

Inhalt
Preface
1. The Origins of the Jihad
2. The Evolution of the Jihad
3. The Mujahedin
4. Joining the Jihad
5. Social Networks and the Jihad
Conclusion
Appendix: Names of Terrorists
Glossary of Foreign-Language Terms
Bibliography
Index

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