Terror incorporated : tracing the dollars behind the terror networks / Loretta Napoleoni ; foreword by Greg Palast.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Napoleoni, Loretta.

Contributor:

Napoleoni, Loretta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--History.

Terrorism.

History.

Terrorism--Economic aspects.

Jihad.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 324 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, 2005.

Summary:

In Terror Incorporated, Loretta Napoleoni maps out the arteries of an international economic system that feeds armed groups the world over. Chasing terror money, she takes the reader from CIA headquarters to the smuggling routes of the Far East, from the back rooms of Wall Street to hawala exchanges in the Middle East.

Napoleoni describes the "New Economy of Terror" as a fast-growing international economic system that is challenging Western hegemony. Sweeping in the breadth and depth of its insights, Terror Incorporated is the first book to confront the issues of global jihad raised by September 11th from a specifically economic perspective, revealing the startling interdependency between western economies and those run by armed groups. Shifting the focus away from religious and cultural differences, Napoleoni boldly examines the full extent of the West's role in developing the economies of armed organizations and provides valuable insights into the real factors dividing "East" and "West." Islamic terror groups, she argues, are shaped by real global economic forces: "As in the Crusades, religion is simply a recruitment tool; the real driving force is economics."

Presenting an astonishing array of evidence culled from extensive research and interviews, Terror Incorporated provides a fascinating account of the complex issues that lie at the heart of the West's most salient threat.

Contents:

Part I The Cold War Years: The Economic Dependency of Terror

1 The Dilemma of Terrorism: War or Crime? 3

2 The Macroeconomics of Terror 13

3 The Privatization of Terror 31

4 Terror Reaganomics 49

Part II The New Economic Disorder

5 The Birth of the Terror State-Shell 65

6 Towards a New World Disorder 81

7 Islamist Economics 89

8 Terror Jihad: The Islamist Crusades 99

9 Islamist Financial Colonization 109

10 The Economic Forces of Islamist Colonization 121

11 The Mosque Network 133

Part III The New Economy of Terror

12 Weak States: Breeding Ground for Terror 143

13 From Modern Jihad to the New Economy of Terror 151

14 Terror's Legitimate Business 163

15 Terror's Balance of Payments 171

16 State-Shell Economics 183

17 The Globalization of the New Economy of Terror 195

18 Globalization, Terror's Unwilling Ally 209.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Modern Jihad, 2003.

Previously published 2004 by Penguin Books under title: Terror Inc.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-300) and index.

Related Work:

Napoleoni, Loretta. Modern Jihad.

ISBN:

1583226737

OCLC:

56807164