Coalitions Between Terrorist Organizations
Biographical note
Ely Karmon is a Senior Research Scholar at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), an internationally renowed think-tank based at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He lectures on terrorism and guerrilla warfare at the IDC. He has written extensively on international terrorism, WMD terrorism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, state-sponsored terrorism, and terrorism in Turkey. He is an advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Defence and a member of the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute's (UNICRI) International Permanent Observatory on Security Measures During Major Events.
Reviews
“In sum, this is an extremely useful book on an important topic that has the potential, depending upon how things develop, to become even more significant in the future. […] Karmon's study is the only extant work that deals with the question of collaboration between terrorist groups from various milieus in a focused, historically sensitive, and methodically systematic fashion, which likely will make it the starting point for most future researchers concerned with these complex issues.”
Jeffrey M Bale The Middle East Journal, Autumn 2006, Vol. 60, Iss., 4,
‘Top 50 Books on Terrorism and Counterterrorism[…]Ely Karmon’s Coalitions Between Terrorist Organizations: Revolutionaries, Nationalists and Islamists[…] is an important and innovative study of how terrorist organizations form cooperative coalitions and how they function within the changing international system[…]In a masterful 70-page chapter on the Islamist terrorist networks, the hypotheses generated by the previous case studies are tested to determine whether the new terrorist actors who emerged in the 1990s, such as al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups around the world, who are driven by religious motivation, act in a similar fashion as their ideological and nationalist predecessors in forming cooperative coalitions.’
Joshua Sinai Perspectives on Terrorism Journal - Volume II, Issue 11, 2008
Jeffrey M Bale The Middle East Journal, Autumn 2006, Vol. 60, Iss., 4,
‘Top 50 Books on Terrorism and Counterterrorism[…]Ely Karmon’s Coalitions Between Terrorist Organizations: Revolutionaries, Nationalists and Islamists[…] is an important and innovative study of how terrorist organizations form cooperative coalitions and how they function within the changing international system[…]In a masterful 70-page chapter on the Islamist terrorist networks, the hypotheses generated by the previous case studies are tested to determine whether the new terrorist actors who emerged in the 1990s, such as al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups around the world, who are driven by religious motivation, act in a similar fashion as their ideological and nationalist predecessors in forming cooperative coalitions.’
Joshua Sinai Perspectives on Terrorism Journal - Volume II, Issue 11, 2008
Table of contents
Acknowledgments;
Preface;
About the Author;
Introduction;
1. Theoretical Framework and Research Paradigm;
2. Variables and Research Hypotheses;
3. Germany – Radical Left-Wing Organizations;
4. Italy – The Red Brigades;
5. France – Action Directe;
6. Euro-Terrorism (1984-88);
7. Italy – Radical Right-Wing Organizations;
8. Spain – The ETA;
9. The Palestinian Terrorist Organizations;
10. Testing the Hypotheses;
11. The Islamist Networks;
Conclusion;
Abbreviations;
Bibliography.
Preface;
About the Author;
Introduction;
1. Theoretical Framework and Research Paradigm;
2. Variables and Research Hypotheses;
3. Germany – Radical Left-Wing Organizations;
4. Italy – The Red Brigades;
5. France – Action Directe;
6. Euro-Terrorism (1984-88);
7. Italy – Radical Right-Wing Organizations;
8. Spain – The ETA;
9. The Palestinian Terrorist Organizations;
10. Testing the Hypotheses;
11. The Islamist Networks;
Conclusion;
Abbreviations;
Bibliography.
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