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" The franchising effect on the Al-Qaeda enterprise and related transnational terror groups: Patterns of evolution of Al-Qaeda affiliates in the 21st century "
Nicholas Benjamin Law
Yetiv, Steve A.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804399
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TL49229
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1873029398; 10245617
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Brooks, Heidi A.
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The franchising effect on the Al-Qaeda enterprise and related transnational terror groups: Patterns of evolution of Al-Qaeda affiliates in the 21st century\ Nicholas Benjamin LawYetiv, Steve A.
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Old Dominion University
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2016
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Ph.D.
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International Studies
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2016
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237
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Committee members: Hassencahl, Fran; Schulman, Peter
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-53846-5
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The attacks of September 11, 2001 by Al-Qaeda-sponsored militants represented a high- water mark for the terrorist organization in its self-styled journey to become the inspirational Islamic vanguard for disenchanted Muslims across the globe. In the years that followed these attacks, the Al-Qaeda enterprise underwent a constant rate of evolution and mutation, resulting in a phenomenon of parallel and like-minded Islamist groups pledging allegiance to Usama bin Laden and his ideological vision of a global jihad. Instead of strengthening the overall organization, this expansion diluted the command and control of Al-Qaeda senior leaders in their ability to shape the overall movement it once led, as well as displaced the locus of power for the larger movement among various powerbrokers with unpredictable agendas and worldviews. Instead, the affiliation and franchising of parallel groups proved to result in only temporary changes in organizational behavior of these affiliates, as the domestic social, political, and economic forces present in these regions and nation-states had much more effect on Al-Qaeda affiliates and their members than the traditional Al-Qaeda agenda.
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Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; International Relations
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Social sciences;Al-Qaeda;Dispersion;Fragmentation;Islam;Jihad;Terrorism
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Yetiv, Steve A.
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International StudiesOld Dominion University
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