Networks and Netwars

The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9823409
AutoresEliot A Cohen (autor correspondente), David Ronfeldt
Ano2002
Volume81
Fascículo2
Páginas182
Data de publicação2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoREVIEW
PeriódicoForeign Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/20033106
OpenAlexW201447438
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas34

From the Publisher: Book Introduction: The fight for the future makes daily headlines. Its battles are not between the armies of leading states, nor are its weapons the large, expensive tanks, planes and fleets of regular armed forces. Rather, the combatants come from bomb-making terrorist groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, drug smuggling cartels like those in Colombia and Mexico, and militant anarchists like the Black Bloc that ran amok during the Battle of Seattle. Other protagonists are civil-society activists fighting for democracy and human rights-from Burma to the Balkans. What all have in common is that they operate in small, dispersed units that can deploy niimbly-anywhere, anytime. They know how to penetrate and disrupt, as well as elude and evade. All feature network forms of organization, doctrine, strategy, and technology attuned to the information age. And, from the Intifadah to the drug war, they are proving very hard to beat; some may actually be winning. This is the story we have to tell. Author Bios: DAVID F. RONFELDT (Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University) is a senior social scientist at RAND whose research focus includes information revolution, netwar, cyberocracy, strategic swarming and the rise of transnational networks of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). JOHN ARQUILLA (Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University) is a RAND consultant and a professor of foreign policy at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California

Criminology · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Terrorism · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence