Marc Sageman

Understanding Terror Networks

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780812238082
• ISBN-10: 0812238087
• Artikelnr.: 13721124

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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