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Al-Qaeda's innovative improvisers : learning in a diffuse transnational network / Calvert Jones

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JONES Calvert

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In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol. 19, No 4, December 2006, pp.555-569 (93)Summary: Drawing on learning theory this article considers how Al-Qaeda is evolving as an organisation and the effect this has on its structure and capabilities. Suggests that networked al-Qaeda militants are innovative improvisers with high creative potential but low professionalism.

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Drawing on learning theory this article considers how Al-Qaeda is evolving as an organisation and the effect this has on its structure and capabilities. Suggests that networked al-Qaeda militants are innovative improvisers with high creative potential but low professionalism.

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