Understanding terror networks /

Sageman, Marc.

Understanding terror networks / Marc Sageman. - Philadelphia, Pa. : Bristol : University of Pennsylvania Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2004. - 232 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Marc Sageman challenges conventional wisdom about terrorism, providing a social explanation of the newly globalised phenomenon. His extensive research into the biographies of individual activists suggests that there is little room for the traditional poverty, trauma, madness, & ignorance theses.

Specialized.

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Terrorists--Social networks.
Terrorism.
Jihad.

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