Disrupting Dark Networks focuses on how social network analysis can be
used to craft strategies to track, destabilize and disrupt covert and
illegal networks. The book begins with an overview of the key terms
and assumptions of social network analysis and various
counterinsurgency strategies. The next several chapters introduce
readers to algorithms and metrics commonly used by social network
analysts. They provide worked examples from four different social
network analysis software packages (UCINET, NetDraw, Pajek and ORA)
using standard network data sets as well as data from an actual
terrorist network that serves as a running example throughout the
book. The book concludes by considering the ethics of and various ways
that social network analysis can inform counterinsurgency
strategizing. By contextualizing these methods in a larger
counterinsurgency framework, this book offers scholars and analysts an
array of approaches for disrupting dark networks.
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9781139794084
Publisert
2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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