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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Contemporary Terrorism Studies |
| Contents |
Cover ; Dedication ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Thieves dancing with wolves; Definitions; The power to mobilize violence; Organized crime; Organized criminal groups and transnational organized crime; Terrorism; Crime for profit and crime for ideology; Creation of fear; Media activities and online presence; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Crime-terror interaction; Practitioners on links between terrorism andorganized crime; Previous scholarly research; Notes; Bibliography |
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Chapter 3: Thieves within the law and organized crime in post-Soviet spaceOrigins of the thieves within the law; Caucasian and Central Asian organized crime; The Georgian thieves within the law; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Origins of Russian-speaking jihadist terrorism; Soviet Islam; The first jihadists; The All-UnionIslamic Renaissance Party; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Wolves of Chechnya and separatism in Northern Caucasus; The Northern Caucasus and Russia; The post-SovietChechen Secession Movement; Wahhabis and foreign jihadist fighters; Inter-warChechnya |
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The merger of Chechen separatist, criminal, andjihadist networksThe Pankisi Gorge; The ChRI in exile; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Confrontation in the Central Asian Republics; Post-SovietCentral Asia; The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan; The Islamic Jihad Union; Operations beyond Central Asia; Allegiance transferred to the Islamic State; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 7: The Caucasus Emirate; Terrorism in Chechnya and beyond; Operations in Turkey and Georgia and state-supportedterrorism; Allegiance transferred to the Islamic State; Notes; Bibliography |
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Chapter 8: Online presence from the ChRI to Kavkaz CenterThe role played by the media; The Kavkaz Center; About Kavkaz Center (The Caucasus Center); Old and new media; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 9: Convergence as a diaspora response; The Russian-speakingdiaspora in Europe; Linkages between transnational organized crime, separatists, and jihadist terrorism; Mutual support in operations; Mutual support in media exploitation; Russian-speakingjihadists in Syria; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Lessons from Russian-speaking transnational organized crime and jihadist terrorist cases in Sweden |
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The Swedish court casesThe arrival of Russian-speakingcriminal and jihadistnetworks in Sweden; Economic crimes and financing of terrorism; Extortion within the Caucasus diaspora; Illegal guns and explosives; Provision of foreign fighters to terrorist groups in Syria; Contract murders; Transnational large-scaleserial burglaries and shoplifting; The April 2017 vehicle borne terrorist attack in Stockholm; Concluding remarks on the Swedish court cases; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 11: Implications for counterterrorism and policing; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"This book describes and analyzes the convergence of transnational organized crime and jihadist terrorism that has taken place within Russian-speaking social networks in Western Europe.?Studies have shown that while under certain circumstances links between criminal organizations and terrorist groups appear, these are usually opportunistic and temporary in nature. Only rarely do they develop into something deeper and transformative, a convergence between crime and terrorism. This book reveals that Russian-speaking transnational organized crime and jihadist terrorism pose a serious threat to security and constitute a major challenge for law enforcement. Through their links with transnational organized crime, Russian-speaking jihadist networks from the Caucasus and Central Asia have easier access to weaponry, commercial explosives, and forged IDs than many other jihadist networks. Being in effect an integral component of transnational organized crime, the Russian-speaking jihadists can be assessed as potentially more capable than many other jihadists. The book assesses the effects of terrorism and organized crime on Russian-speaking diasporas in Western Europe and examines the implications for counterterrorism as well as policing on how to counteract the illegal activities of these networks. Drawing on Swedish court cases the work shows that an additional, and sometimes more effective way, to fight terrorism is by focusing on the non-terrorist types of crime perpetrated by terrorists.?This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and counter-terrorism, political violence, criminology, security studies and IR in general."--Provided by publisher |
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Print version record |
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Transnational crime -- Europe, Western
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Organized crime -- Europe, Western
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Terrorism -- Europe, Western
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Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism.
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Organized crime
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Terrorism
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Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
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Transnational crime
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Western Europe
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315177151 |
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1315177153 |
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135170950X |
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9781351709507 |
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