The sources of terrorist financing: theory and typology
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Freeman, Michael
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2011
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Routledge/Taylor & Francis
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Terrorism costs money. Although the costs of specific operations may be relatively inexpensive, terrorist organizations require much larger budgets in order to function. But how do terrorist groups acquire funding? What explains the variation in the particular sources used by different groups? This article develops a theory of terrorist financing that identifies criteria by which we can evaluate the different sources of terrorist funding,
particularly in terms of their advantages and disadvantages to the terrorist group. These criteria are then applied across a typology of four primary types of terrorist financing: state sponsorship, illegal activity, legal activity, and popular support.
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2011.571193
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Defense Analysis (DA)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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16 p.
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Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, v. 34, pp. 461–475, 2011
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.