{"id":332,"date":"2013-10-22T23:12:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2013-10-22T23:12:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T03:12:04","slug":"video-and-shapiros-book-the-terrorists-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/22\/video-and-shapiros-book-the-terrorists-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Video and Shapiro&#8217;s book The Terrorist&#8217;s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great 90 minute video of Jake Shapiro, Bruce Hoffman and Will McCants speaking at an event announcing the release of Jake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new book, <em>The Terrorist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newamerica.net\/events\/2013\/the_terrorists_dilemma\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.newamerica.net\/events\/2013\/the_terrorists_dilemma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His book systematically examines the structural differences between terrorist groups, discusses the core managerial challenges these groups face, and illustrates how the organizations are affected by their political goals and operational environments.\u00c2\u00a0 Shapiro provides a historically-informed explanation for why some groups have little hierarchy, while others resemble miniature firms.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking at groups in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, he highlights how consistent and widespread the terrorist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dilemma \u00e2\u20ac\u201d balancing the desire to maintain control with the need for secrecy \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has been since the 1880s. A good read for anyone interested in a higher-level study of terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great 90 minute video of Jake Shapiro, Bruce Hoffman and Will McCants speaking at an event announcing the release of Jake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new book, The Terrorist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations. http:\/\/www.newamerica.net\/events\/2013\/the_terrorists_dilemma His book systematically examines the structural differences between terrorist groups, discusses the core managerial challenges these groups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/22\/video-and-shapiros-book-the-terrorists-dilemma\/\" class=\"btn btn-link continue-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}