Analysis of topologies and key players in terrorist networks

Fatih Ozgul

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2016, vol. 56, issue C, 40-54

Abstract: While topologies and key player positions and roles differ across terrorist networks, similar ideological networks share similar structures and topologies, maintaining structural properties of their predecessor groups. In this study, we look at basic ideological waves of terrorism in history, classify terrorist network ideologies, and describe the patterns in network topologies and key player characteristics. We show that ideological differences in terrorist networks in part explain the differences in the structure of links between key players.

Keywords: Terrorist networks; Topology; Structure; Key players; Degree; Eigenvector centrality; Closeness; Betweenness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2016.07.002

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