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Understanding Terrorist Finance provides powerful new insights in the financial and economic realities of terrorist groups. Dispelling popular myths, the book presents the first unified coherent framework for the systematic analysis of terrorist finance and includes empirical studies of the financing of groups in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Wittig finds that the activities typically represented as 'terrorist finance', such as donations, criminal activities and weapons procurement, ought to be understood in terms of how terrorists as socio-political actors access and interact with flows of economic value rather than as elements of an illicit financial edifice supposedly underpinning global terrorism.
This book challenges conventional understandings of how terrorist groups are financed. It offers a new analytical framework for examining the economic realities of terrorism, moving beyond simplistic notions of illicit financial edifices. The author presents empirical studies from various global regions to support this revised perspective.
The book offers a novel perspective on the financial underpinnings of terrorist organizations, aiming to dispel common myths. It proposes a systematic analytical framework supported by regional case studies. The author's approach reframes typical activities associated with terrorist finance. This work is likely to be of interest to scholars and policymakers concerned with counter-terrorism and financial crime.
Page Count:
238
Publication Date:
2011-01-01
ISBN-10:
0230291848
ISBN-13:
9780230291843
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