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Al Qaeda as a dune organization: toward a typology of islamic terrorist organizations / Mishal, Shaul; Rosenthal, Maoz

Jul-Aug 2005 Journal Article

Mishal, Shaul	Journal Article
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Jul-Aug 2005.

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Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups offer the analyst a highly complex challenge. The current literature classifies Islamic terrorist organizations as either networked or hierarchical. Yet, this classification fails to account for the appearance on the international stage of a new type of global terrorism. Most notably, it does not capture the structure and mode of operation of Al Qaeda as it emerged after the 2001 U.S.-led assault on Afghanistan. This article therefore introduces a new conceptthe Dune organizationthat is distinct from other organizational modes of thinking. This conceptualization leads to a new typology of Islamic terrorist organizations. This typology concentrates on organizational behavior patterns and provides a framework for a comparative analysis of terrorist movements, which is applied to a study of Al Qaeda, Hizballah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

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Palestine ; Jihad ; Islamic Terrorism ; Islamic Terrorist Organization

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ID: 091731

Israel's 1993 decision to make peace with the PLO or how politi / Rosenthal, Maoz; Doron, Gideon

Rosenthal, Maoz	Journal Article
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2009.

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Oslo Process ; Political Losers ; Analytic Narratives ; Yitzhak Rabin ; Shimon Peres

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ID: 144677

National party strategies in local elections: a theory and some evidence from the Israeli case / Nachmias, David; Rosenthal, Maoz ; Zubida, Hani

Nachmias, David	Article
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Israeli national parties show a high variance in their tendency to compete in local elections for local authorities’ mayoral position and council seats. Indeed national parties can use local electoral competition to garner support for national elections. However, national parties might be also exposed to local losses and commitments which will hurt their performance in national elections. The results of Israeli ballot-box data from the 2006 national and the 2008 local elections show that Israeli national parties’ decision whether to compete in local elections is affected by the local support patterns in national elections, parties’ valence and the locality’s peripherality.

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Political Parties ; Political Competition ; Local Elections ; Israeli Politics ; Electoral Valence

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