Al Qaeda as a Dune Organization: Toward a Typology of Islamic Terrorist Organizations

Autor: Shaul Mishal, Maoz Rosenthal
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. 28:275-293
ISSN: 1521-0731
1057-610X
DOI: 10.1080/10576100590950165
Popis: Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups offer the analyst a highly complex challenge. The current literature classifies Islamic terrorist organizations as either networked or hierarchical. Yet, this classification fails to account for the appearance on the international stage of a new type of global terrorism. Most notably, it does not capture the structure and mode of operation of Al Qaeda as it emerged after the 2001 U.S.-led assault on Afghanistan. This article therefore introduces a new conceptthe Dune organizationthat is distinct from other organizational modes of thinking. This conceptualization leads to a new typology of Islamic terrorist organizations. This typology concentrates on organizational behavior patterns and provides a framework for a comparative analysis of terrorist movements, which is applied to a study of Al Qaeda, Hizballah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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