Scott Helfstein

Biographic Data

ID1599518
NAMEScott Helfstein
GIVEN NAMESScott
FAMILY NAMEHelfstein
SIGNATUREHELFSTEIN S
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Military Academy
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS29
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX2

  • Backfire

    Open AccessScott HelfsteinARTICLEForeign Policy Analysis2011Cited by: 1References: 31

    Journal Article Backfire: Behavioral Decision Making and the Strategic Risks of Successful Surprise Get access Scott Helfstein Scott Helfstein United States Military Academy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 8, Issue 3, July 2012, Pages 275–292, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2011.00165.x Published: 03 July 2012

  • Success, Lethality, and Cell Structure Across the Dimensions of Al Qaeda

    Scott Helfstein, Dominick WrightARTICLEStudies in Conflict and Terrorism2011Cited by: 6

    While experts understand that Al Qaeda's attack patterns and operational qualities are changing, they struggle to identify and generate consensus on Al Qaeda's strategic center of gravity. By defining different levels of Al Qaeda, core, periphery, and movement, this article engages current debates about the threat by focusing on the operational differences across these three levels. Contrary to conventional wisdom about operational efficiency, th…

  • Covert or Convenient? Evolution of Terror Attack Networks

    Open AccessScott Helfstein, Dominick WrightARTICLEJournal of Conflict Resolution2011Cited by: 21References: 38

    The concept of networks has become synonymous with terrorism in recent years. Despite the abundance of material engaging the concept of terrorist networks, there is a paucity of research that applies analytic network methods to the empirical study of observed data. This article fills that void by comparing two arguments about terror network structure using a newly released attack network data set. One account suggests that terrorists purposefully…

  • Friends Don't Let Friends Proliferate

    Open AccessScott HelfsteinARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2010Cited by: 1

  • White Paper Prepared for The Secretary of Defense Task Force on DoD Nuclear Weapons Management

    Scott Helfstein, Michael J Meese et al.ARTICLEStudies in Conflict and Terrorism2009

    This article was written at the request of the Secretary of Defense Task Force on DoD Nuclear Weapons Management. While this analysis suggests that certain types of terrorists can be deterred from certain types of attacks, it is less optimistic about the use of nuclear weapons in a terrorist deterrent strategy. A broad approach to deterrence may be effective against certain types of terrorist groups and attacks, making it crucially important to d…

  • Governance of Terror

    Open AccessScott HelfsteinARTICLEPublic Administration Review2009References: 34

    A preoccupation with network approaches in terrorism studies has inadvertently marginalized the fact that terrorist groups are subject to many of the same bureaucratic forces that impact all purposeful organizations. Because typical organizations are subsumed in the concept of networks, it is curious that scholars have been so quick to bypass more traditional models of organizations and bureaucracy that may help us understand network topology. Th…