Terrorist Criminal Enterprises
Subtitle: Financing Terrorism through Organized Crime
By: edited by Kimberley L. Thachuk and Rollie Lal
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Praeger Security International
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2023
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9798216024545
Subjects: Politics & government
Description: This cohesive set of case studies collects scholarly research, policy evaluation, and field experience to explain how terrorist groups have developed into criminal enterprises.  Terrorist groups have evolved from orthodox global insurgents funded by rogue sponsors into nimble and profitable transnational criminal enterprises whose motivations are not always evident. This volume seeks to explain how and why terrorist groups are often now criminal enterprises through 12 case studies of terrorist criminal enterprises written by authors who have derived their expertise on terrorism and/or organized crime from diverse sources. Terrorist groups have been chosen from different regions to provide the global coverage.  Chapters describe and analyze the actors, actions, problems, and collaborations of specific terrorist criminal enterprises. Other elements discussed include links to such facilitating conditions as political culture, corruption, history, economy, and issues of governance. This work advances scholarship in the field of counterterrorism by expanding the understanding of these terrorist groups as entities not driven purely by ideology but rather by the criminal enterprises with which they often coincide.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Christopher A. Kojm Acknowledgments Terminology and Abbreviations 1 An Introduction to Terrorist Criminal Enterprises Kimberley L. Thachuk and Rollie Lal 2 The Gangsterization of Terrorism Kimberley L. Thachuk 3 Da'esh in Iraq and Syria: Terrorist Criminal Enterprise Colin P. Clarke and Phil Williams 4 Da'esh and Al-Qaida in Europe Rollie Lal 5 The Industry of Terror: Criminal Financing of the North Caucasus Insurgency Yuliya Zabyelina 6 The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC): A Transnational Criminal-Insurgent-Terror Phenomenon Max G. Manwaring 7 Boko Haram and al-Shabaab: Adaptable Criminal Financing amid Expanded Terror Omar S. Mahmood 8 The Haqqani Network: Gangster Jihadists Kimberley L. Thachuk 9 The Evolution of the PKK into a Criminal Enterprise Mahmut Cengiz and Süleyman Özeren 10 Hezbollah: The Continuing Expansion of a Robust Criminal Enterprise Rhea D. Siers 11 Cashing in on Fragility: Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and Crime in the Sahelo-Saharan Region Audra Grant 12 The Abu Sayyaf Group: A Destructive Duality Richard T. Oakley 13 Policy Options: Combating Terrorist Criminal Enterprises Rollie Lal About the Editors and Contributors Index