Understanding Terror Networks: A Quantitative Correlational Research Investigated Terrorist

In the past 15 years, dramatic acts of terror have been committed against citizens of many countries. A reasonable first step toward addressing such violence is understanding where it comes from—what motivates people to join terror organizations and engage in terrorism. Recent work in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience provides some perspective on the mind of a terrorist. This book offers new knowledge regarding organizational behavior and leadership by providing a more thorough understanding of the ways in which these theories apply to the profiling of the behaviors of terrorist organizations. Specifically, the contributions of this research include the identification of: (1) a correlation between the Long Term Orientation of a nation and the performance of terrorist organizations; (2) the preference of terrorist organizations for injury incidents rather than fatality incidents; (3) the lack of correlation between terrorist organizational size and performance; and (4) the differences in performance between terrorist organizations with a predominantly religious ideology and organizations with a predominantly political ideology.