Network Externalities and the Structure of Terror Networks
In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 54, Heft 2, S. 262-280
Abstract
The authors analyze the optimal network structure of two types of terrorist organizations. In the centralized network, the leadership selects the level of individual effort and the level of group connectivity so as to maximize the expected net welfare of the organization's membership. Leaders in loosely connected networks will also seek to balance the trade-off between security and communications. However, with decentralized decision making, the individual nodes may not make optimal decisions from the group's perspective. As a consequence, the decentralized decision-making process is suboptimal from the overall perspective of the network. In particular, the leadership in a centralized network is able to coordinate the activities of all network members and to take advantage of important network externalities. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]
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Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks CA
ISSN: 1552-8766
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