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Unholy Alliances: Evidence on Linkages between Trans-State Terrorism and Crime Networks: The Case of Bosnia

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International terrorist movements and criminal networks are usually analysed as distinct phenomena. In theory their objectives differ: political motives inspire terrorist activities; material gains drive criminal action. In practice, however, terrorists need resources for arms, logistics, and sustenance and shelter for militants. Consequently, terrorist movements frequently rely on robbery, kidnapping for ransom, extortion, and trafficking in drugs and humans to finance their activities. Terrorists may establish criminal networks themselves. Alternatively, they may decide to cooperate with pre-existing ones. Other criminals, on the other hand, may find it useful to align with militant transnational movements. Driven by interests in profit maximization and risk reduction, transnational illicit businesses seek expansion of commercial opportunities. A new rebellion provides plenty of them, all the more so if it spills across international borders.

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  • Organize Crime
  • Criminal Network
  • Criminal Enterprise
  • Muslim Brotherhood
  • Advocacy Network

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  1. University of Sofia, Bulgaria

    Lyubov G. Mincheva (Associate Professor of Political Science)

  2. University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Ted Robert Gurr (Distinguished University Professor Emeritus)

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  1. University of Graz, Austria

    Wolfgang Benedek (Professor of International law) (Professor of International law)

  2. University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Christopher Daase (Professor of International Organization) (Professor of International Organization)

  3. University of Belgrade Law School, Serbia

    Vojin Dimitrijević

  4. University of Tilburg, Netherlands

    Petrus van Duyne (Professor of Empirical Penal Science) (Professor of Empirical Penal Science)

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Mincheva, L.G., Gurr, T.R. (2010). Unholy Alliances: Evidence on Linkages between Trans-State Terrorism and Crime Networks: The Case of Bosnia. In: Benedek, W., Daase, C., Dimitrijević, V., van Duyne, P. (eds) Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281479_11

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