TY  - BOOK
AU  - SAGEMAN Marc
TI  - Understanding terror networks
SN  - 0812238087 (hbk.):
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Philadelphia, Penn. USA
PB  - Univ. of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - CAUSES OF TERRORISM
KW  - TERRORISM
N2  - Study of the rise of terrorism under the label of jihad. Argues that the commonly held assumptions about the causes of terrorism (poverty, trauma, ignorance) are wrong. Instead it is suggested that for the majority of mujahedin social ties predate ideological commitment and it was these social networks that inspired alienated young Muslim men to join the jihad
ER  -