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Networks and the Study of Criminal and Terrorist Organizations

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In the past decade, and particularly in the time following September 2001, there has been a surge of interest in networks, both in academic research and within policy circles. A wave of scientific publications, think tank papers, and newspaper articles attempt to describe and explain current phenomena such as the turbulences in the financial markets, migration flows, transnational terrorism, or the impact of organized crime beyond national borders. On the one hand, the network trend seems to be the result of a more general paradigmatic shift away from individualist and linear explanations of complex phenomena towards more relational, systemic understandings of processes. On the other hand, networks seem to provide a prism that better captures unprecedented developments in a world that is densely interlinked through information and communication technologies as never before.

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  1. National Technical University of Athens, UK

    Georgios Kolliarakis (studied Engineering)

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  1. University of Graz, Austria

    Wolfgang Benedek (Professor of International law) (Professor of International law)

  2. University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Christopher Daase (Professor of International Organization) (Professor of International Organization)

  3. University of Belgrade Law School, Serbia

    Vojin Dimitrijević

  4. University of Tilburg, Netherlands

    Petrus van Duyne (Professor of Empirical Penal Science) (Professor of Empirical Penal Science)

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Kolliarakis, G. (2010). Networks and the Study of Criminal and Terrorist Organizations. In: Benedek, W., Daase, C., Dimitrijević, V., van Duyne, P. (eds) Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281479_6

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