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Title Sharing the dragon's teeth : terrorist groups and the exchange of new technologies / Kim Cragin [and others].

Publication Info. [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Rand Homeland Security, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 114 pages).
text file
Series Rand Corporation monograph series
Rand Corporation monograph series.
Note "MG-485-DHS."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Organizational theory and terrorism -- Mindanao : a Mecca for transnational terrorism in Southeast Asia -- West Bank and Gaza : Israel as the common enemy -- Southwest Colombia : a safe haven for mutually beneficial exchanges -- Policy implications.
Summary Terrorist groups -- both inside and outside the al Qaeda network -- sometimes form mutually beneficial partnerships to exchange "best practices." These exchanges provide terrorist groups with the opportunity to innovate (i.e., increase their skills and expand their reach). Understanding how terrorist groups exchange technology and knowledge, therefore, is essential to ongoing and future counterterrorism strategies. This study examines how 11 terrorist groups in three areas (Mindanao, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and southwest Colombia) have attempted to exchange technologies and knowledge in an effort to reveal some of their vulnerabilities. The analysis provides the Department of Homeland Security and other national security policymakers with insight into the innovation process and suggests ways that government policies can create barriers to terrorists' adoption of new technologies.
Note Title from PDF title screen (viewed June 12, 2007).
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Terrorism.
Terrorism.
Terrorism -- Technological innovations.
Terrorism -- Technological innovations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Cragin, Kim.
Rand Homeland Security (Program)
Rand Corporation.
Other Form: Print version: (DLC) 2006012871 (OCoLC)137592813
ISBN 9780833042491 (electronic book)
0833042491 (electronic book)
9780833039156
0833039156