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Terrorist Decision-Making: A Leader-Centric Approach book cover

1st Edition

Terrorist Decision-Making A Leader-Centric Approach

By Alex Mintz, Tyson Chatagnier, Yair Samban Copyright 2020
240 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge
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This book analyzes a series of decisions by leaders of three major terrorist organizations and identifies a unique "Decision DNA" for each of them. The authors use the Applied Decision Analysis methodology to examine organizational and operational decisions made by the leaders of three major groups: Hezbollah (Hassan Nasrallah), Hamas (Khaled Mashal), and al-Qaeda (Osama bin Laden). Decisions... Read more

1. The Logic of Terrorist Leaders' Decisions

2. Cognitive and Rational Explanations of Terrorist Leaders’ Decisions

3. Hamas’ Winding Political Path with Leehe Friedman

4. Between Limited War and Strategic Buildup: An Analysis of Hassan Nasrallah’s Decision Pattern with Ronny Donyetz Rosenzweig

5. Uncovering Bin Laden’s Decision Rules

6. Al-Qaeda’s Decisions in the European Theater

7. Conclusions and Implications for ISIS' Decisions

Biography

Alex Mintz is Provost of the IDC Herzliya, Israel, and former president of the Israeli Political Science Association.



John Tyson Chatagnier is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston, USA.



Yair Samban is a researcher affiliated with the Behavioral Political Science Lab at IDC Herzliya, Israel.

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