Record Nr.

UNINA9910818632903321

Autore

Karmon Ely

Titolo

Coalitions Between Terrorist Organizations : Revolutionaries, Nationalists and Islamists / / Ely Karmon

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Leiden; ; Boston : , : Brill \| Nijhoff, , 2005

ISBN

1-280-86802-3

9786610868025

1-4294-5299-4

90-474-0738-5

1-4337-0393-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (439 p.)

Disciplina

303.625

Soggetti

Coalitions

Terrorism

Terrorist organizations

Terrorists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume proposes some theories on the conditions that favor the formation of coalitions between terrorist organizations, and how they function within the changing international system. These theories are tested against empirical data on actual cooperation between European and Palestinian terrorist organizations from 1968 to 1990, and cooperation between European left-wing terrorist organizations (the phenomenon known as Euro-terrorism) from 1984 to 1988. These findings form the basis of a broader theory concerning cooperation and

coalitions between organizations involved in international terrorism. Finally, an attempt is made to verify whether the new terrorist players driven, at least theoretically, by religious motivation, will imitate the behavior of the ideological or nationalist organizations, and to test whether the theories concerning cooperation and coalitions developed in this volume apply to the new reality.