Joshua Alexander Geltzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5907674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Alexander Geltzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Geltzer |
| SIGNATURE | GELTZER J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Complexity Trap
When you start applying blanket policies on the complexities of the current world situation, you're going to get yourself into trouble. (1) --President Barack Obama The of Complexity We live a world of unprecedented complexity, or so we are told. President Obama's words above echo an increasingly common narrative the American foreign policy and national security establishments: the forces of globalization, rising nonstate actors, irregular confli…
Taking Hand-Outs or Going It Alone
This article explores the consequences for the funding of Islamist terrorist groups of nationalization, in the form of state sponsorship, versus privatization, in the form of autonomous financing. The article begins by examining the evolution in terrorist groups’ sources of funding from state sponsorship to autonomous activity, then turns to the benefits and costs to terrorist groups of relying on state sponsors. The article then analyzes the ben…
US Counter-Terrorism Strategy and al-Qaeda
This book examines the communicative aspects and implications of US counter-terrorist policies towards al-Qaeda. Recent US counter-terrorist strategy has been largely based upon projecting certain perceptions of America as an actor to those drawn to al-Qaeda, and this book investigates in what ways, and to what extent, US officials believed that the signals sent by what America did and said could influence the behaviour of the terrorist and would…
Six rather unexplored assumptions about al-Qaeda
For all of the prodigious output on the subject of al-Qaeda from scholars and policy-makers alike recently, a number of consequential assumptions about the group remain startlingly unexplored. This paper examines six such assumptions, revealing each one's foundational role in assertions and debates about al-Qaeda (and, in most cases, about terrorism more broadly) despite the relatively unexplored status of each. These six assumptions relate to: (…
Six rather unexplored assumptions about al-Qaeda
For all of the prodigious output on the subject of al-Qaeda from scholars and policy-makers alike recently, a number of consequential assumptions about the group remain startlingly unexplored. This paper examines six such assumptions, revealing each one's foundational role in assertions and debates about al-Qaeda (and, in most cases, about terrorism more broadly) despite the relatively unexplored status of each. These six assumptions relate to: (…
Six rather unexplored assumptions about al-Qaeda
For all of the prodigious output on the subject of al-Qaeda from scholars and policy-makers alike recently, a number of consequential assumptions about the group remain startlingly unexplored. This paper examines six such assumptions, revealing each one's foundational role in assertions and debates about al-Qaeda (and, in most cases, about terrorism more broadly) despite the relatively unexplored status of each. These six assumptions relate to: (…
US Counter-Terrorism Strategy and al-Qaeda
This book examines the communicative aspects and implications of US counter-terrorist policies towards al-Qaeda. Recent US counter-terrorist strategy has been largely based upon projecting certain perceptions of America as an actor to those drawn to al-Qaeda, and this book investigates in what ways, and to what extent, US officials believed that the signals sent by what America did and said could influence the behaviour of the terrorist and would…
Taking Hand-Outs or Going It Alone
This article explores the consequences for the funding of Islamist terrorist groups of nationalization, in the form of state sponsorship, versus privatization, in the form of autonomous financing. The article begins by examining the evolution in terrorist groups’ sources of funding from state sponsorship to autonomous activity, then turns to the benefits and costs to terrorist groups of relying on state sponsors. The article then analyzes the ben…
The Complexity Trap
When you start applying blanket policies on the complexities of the current world situation, you're going to get yourself into trouble. (1) --President Barack Obama The of Complexity We live a world of unprecedented complexity, or so we are told. President Obama's words above echo an increasingly common narrative the American foreign policy and national security establishments: the forces of globalization, rising nonstate actors, irregular confli…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Terrorism (3 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (3 works) · Al qaeda (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (2 works)