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Today, no single issue dominates the global political landscape as
much as terrorism. Aware of their unique position in the newly
unipolar world, terrorist leaders - Osama bin Laden foremost among
them - have articulated that economic warfare is a key component of
the new terrorist agenda. Governments have accentuated the role of
economic tools in their counter-terrorism policies while
maintaining emphasis on the application of military force, or hard
power, even though such tools often prove unnecessarily blunt, or
in some cases are sorely inadequate. Given the complexity of the
global threat posed by modern trans-national terrorist groups,
combating terrorism with a mix of hard and soft power is more
important than ever. The need for nuanced management and a full
complement of choices in the policy toolkit is a pressing
concern.Terrornomics is an invaluable new book for graduate and
undergraduate courses in terrorism studies that - brings together
contributions from renowned international scholars and
practitioners from a variety of disciplines; provides a
multifaceted view of contemporary financial counterterrorism and
terrorist funding efforts; and, employs key concepts, terms, case
studies and policy recommendations to advance the reader's
understanding of the threats and possible courses of action.
Terrornomics helps policy makers and students of the complex
phenomenon known as terrorism grasp the critical financial and
economic issues, while providing potential counterterrorist
strategies.
From the "Facebook" revolutions in the Arab world to the use of
social networking in the aftermath of disasters in Japan and Haiti,
to the spread of mobile telephony throughout the developing world:
all of these developments are part of how information and
communication technologies are altering global affairs. With the
rise of the social web and applications like Facebook, YouTube and
Twitter, scholars and practitioners of international affairs are
adapting to this new information space across a wide scale of issue
areas. In conflict resolution, dialogues and communication are
taking the form of open social networks, while in the legal realm,
where cyberspace is largely lawless space, states are stepping up
policing efforts to combat online criminality and hackers are
finding new ways around increasingly sophisticated censorship.
Militaries are moving to deeply incorporate information
technologies into their doctrines, and protesters are developing
innovative uses of technology to keep one step ahead of the
authorities. The essays and topical cases in this book explore such
issues as networks and networked thinking, information ownership,
censorship, neutrality, cyberwars, humanitarian needs, terrorism,
privacy and rebellion, giving a comprehensive overview of the core
issues in the field, complemented by real world examples.
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