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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Loretta Napoleoni |
| ISBN: | 1583226737 9781583226735 |
| OCLC Number: | 56807164 |
| Notes: | Rev. ed. of: Modern Jihad, 2003. Previously published 2004 by Penguin Books under title: Terror Inc. |
| Description: | xxvii, 324 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue : September 11: a former member of an Italian armed group reflects on old and new terror -- Part I : The Cold War Years: The Economic Dependency of Terror -- The Dilemma of Terrorism: War or Crime? How 11 September could have been avoided had the US regarded the first bombing of the World Trade Center as an act of war instead of a domestic crime -- The Macroeconomics of Terror. The birth of modern armed groups: from the ashes of the colonial war to the war by proxy of the Cold War. Terror becomes a political reality -- The Privatisation of Terror. Armed groups search for financial independence. How Arafat transformed the PLO into the independent economic engine of the Palestinians' struggle for self-determination -- Terror Reaganomics. Terror mavericks and guns for hire; Arab countries get involved in sponsoring armed groups. Terror becomes business -- Part II : The New Economic Disorder -- The Birth of the Terror State-Shell. How armed groups shaped their own state using war economics instead of nationalism and political consensus -- Towards a New World Disorder. The anti-Soviet Jihad, a pyrrhic victory for the US and its Muslim allies. From the ashes of the Soviet bloc a new enemy rises: Islamist terror -- Islamist Economics. The legacy of the anti-Soviet Jihad: the spread of Islamist armed groups in Central Asia and in the Caucasus -- Terror Jihad: The Islamist Crusades. Modern Jihad: Osama bin Laden and his Islamist followers wage a crusade against the economic hegemony of the West and its Muslim allies -- Islamist Financial Colonisation. Islamic banking and finance penetrate Muslim countries in the Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia, paving the way for Islamist armed insurgency -- The Economic Forces of Islamist Colonisation. Emerging new social classes in Arab countries back financially the spreading of Islamist insurgency to end the economic hegemony of the West: bankers, traders and businessmen -- The Mosque Network. Mosques as a powerful international recruiting ground of the Modern Jihad -- Part III : The New Economy of Terror -- Weak States: Breeding Ground for Terror. Armed groups' strongholds across the world: Sudan, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone -- From Modern Jihad to the New Economy of Terror. Under the umbrella of the Modern Jihad, Islamist and non-Islamist armed groups become business partners creating the New Economy of Terror. Terror becomes an international economic system -- Terror's Legitimate Business. The many legitimate businesses run by armed organisations from the IRA to al-Qaeda -- Terror's Balance of Payments. From charities to crime; how terror economies generate and redistribute wealth -- State-Shell Economics. Armed groups' expenditure; a cost-benefit analysis of suicide bombers -- The Globalisation of the New Economy of Terror. How big is the New Economy of Terror? A fast-growing illegal economy twice the size of the United Kingdom's GDP -- Globalisation, Terror's Unwilling Ally. How globalization has boosted the New Economy of Terror and helped armed organizations avoid anti-terrorism measures. |
| Responsibility: | Loretta Napoleoni ; foreword by Greg Palast. |
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