Sean S. Costigan, David Gold - Terrornomics
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co | 2007-05-07 | ISBN: 0754649954 | PDF | 222 pages | 1.05 MB




Today, no single issue dominates the global political landscape as muchas terrorism. Aware of their unique position in the newly unipolarworld, terrorist leaders - Osama bin Laden foremost among them - havearticulated that economic warfare is a key component of the newterrorist agenda. Governments have accentuated the role of economictools in their counter-terrorism policies while maintaining emphasis onthe application of military force, or "hard power," even though suchtools often prove unnecessarily blunt, or in some cases are sorelyinadequate. Given the complexity of the global threat posed by moderntrans-national terrorist groups, combating terrorism with a mix of hardand "soft power" is more important than ever. The need for nuancedmanagement and a full complement of choices in the policy toolkit is apressing concern.
Terrornomics is an invaluable new book for graduate and undergraduate courses in terrorism studies that:
* Brings together contributions from renowned international scholarsand practitioners from a variety of disciplines * Provides amultifaceted view of contemporary financial counterterrorism andterrorist funding efforts * Employs key concepts, terms, case studiesand policy recommendations to advance the reader's understanding of thethreats and possible courses of action.
Terrornomics helps policy makers and students of the complex phenomenonknown as terrorism grasp the critical financial and economic issues,while providing potential counterterrorist strategies.