Countering the Financing of Terrorism

by Biersteker; Thomas J.

• ISBN13: 9780415396424
• ISBN10: 0415396425
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Groups committing acts of terrorism have adapted their means of financing to elude detection since the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Surveying the global community?s multi-year effort to cut off terrorist funding, this volume offers a much-needed analysis of a complex, widely discussed, yet poorly understood subject. While books on terrorism have touched upon the topic, this is the first comprehensive, balanced, and scholarly overview of terrorist financing, its methods, and efforts to counter it. Bringing together leading analysts of terrorism, international relations, global finance, law, and criminology, Countering the Financing of Terrorism provides a critical assessment of the international effort to restrict terrorist financing. It evaluates the costs and benefits and offers recommendations for more effective policies for the future.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
Preface and acknowledgements	p. x
List of abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: the challenge of terrorist financing	p. 1
The social organization of terrorism	p. 17
Producing terror: organizational dynamics of survival	p. 19
The evolution of al Qaeda	p. 47
The social organization of terror in Southeast Asia: the case of Jemaah Islamiyah	p. 63
The financial organization of terrorism: the raising and movement of funds	p. 91
Terrorism, charities and diasporas: contrasting the fundraising practices of Hamas and al Qaeda among Muslims in Europe	p. 93
Terrorist financing and organized crime: nexus, appropriation, or transformation?	p. 126
Trade diversion as a fund raising and money laundering technique of terrorist organizations	p. 150
The design, development, and implementation of regulatory and supervisory frameworks for informal funds transfer systems	p. 174
Al Qaeda and the gemstone trade	p. 193
Responses to the terrorist financing challenge	p. 207
The US regulatory approach to terrorist financing	p. 209
International initiatives to combat the financing of terrorism	p. 234
Lessons for countering terrorist financing from the war on serious and organized crime	p. 260
Conclusion: taking stock of efforts to counter the financing of terrorism and recommendations for the way forward	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 305
Index	p. 333
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