Rational Terrorists and Optimal Network Structure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6285308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walter Enders (University of Alabama), Xuejuan Su (University of Alabama) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-57 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002706296155 |
| OpenAlex | W2112621362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
| References cited | 12 |
After the events of 9/11, U.S. counterterrorism became more proactive in that the Patriot Act allowed the authorities far more freedom to directly attack terrorist network structures. We argue that rational terrorists will attempt to thwart such policies and restructure themselves to be less penetrable. We model the trade-off between security and intragroup communication faced by terrorists. The model is used to derive the anticipated changes in network structure and the consequent changes in the type, complexity, and success rate of potential terrorist attacks
Computer security · Economics · Law and economics · Network structure · Patriot Act · Political science · Restructuring · Terrorism · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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Illicit Network Dynamics
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Diffusion of Al-Shabaab through ungoverned spaces
Mapping Global Cyberterror Networks
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Measuring the Economic Costs of Terrorism
Gender-based Explosions
Social Movements and Protest
The Political Economy of Terrorism
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Counterterrorism, Counterframing, and Perceptions of Terrorist (Ir)rationality
Dilemmas of the terrorist underworld
Detecting significant changes in dark networks
Keeping up appearances
Evolution of a drug trafficking network
Hybrid transnational advocacy networks in environmental protection
Social Network Analysis in the Study of Terrorism and Insurgency
The Dangers of Terror in World Politics
Rhetoric of Political Leaders as an Indicator of Significance of the Other
Lethal Connections
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (Lats) dataset
To the fringe and back
Change in Covert Social Movement Networks
The influence of secrecy on the communication structure of covert networks
Covert social movement networks and the secrecy-efficiency trade off
One-mode projection analysis and design of covert affiliation networks
Temporal dynamics in covert networks
Covert or Convenient? Evolution of Terror Attack Networks
Terrorism and Policy
Controlling Access to Territory
Network Externalities and the Structure of Terror Networks
Informally Governing Information
Terrorist Group Cooperation and Longevity
Network Analysis for International Relations
State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile
Networks of Conflict and Cooperation
From armed group to movement
An Application of Natural Language Processing to Classify What Terrorists Say They Want
On the economics of interrogation
Minorities and the Clandestine Collective Action Dilemma
| Unique citing works | 44 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,2 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2027 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |