The psychology and ideology of an islamic terrorist leader: Usama bin Laden

Miliora, Maria T.

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“…contribute to engagement in violent behaviours by individuals who show higher levels of narcissistic traits. The literature on narcissistic traits in violent Western radicals is scarce; so far, research seems to have mainly been focused on Middle Eastern terrorists (Merari, Diamant, Bibi, Broshi, & Zakin, 2009;Miliora, 2004).…”

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How identity crisis, relative deprivation, personal characteristics, and empathy contribute to the engagement of Western individuals in Islamist terrorist behavior

Yusoufzai¹,

Emmerling²

2017

Journal of Terrorism Research

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Section: Personal Characteristicsmentioning

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How identity crisis, relative deprivation, personal characteristics, and empathy contribute to the engagement of Western individuals in Islamist terrorist behavior

Yusoufzai¹,

Emmerling²

2017

Journal of Terrorism Research

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“…A reason for an irrational representation of an organisation may be that the leaders are illminded or they just have also personal aims which are partly conflicting with the organisation's aims. Miliora (2004) analyses the psychology of Usama bin Laden and draws the conclusion that three features of his personality are prominent: archaic narcissistic states, paranoia and a Manichean sense of reality. In case this diagnosis is right, would it then be possible that this leader conducts his organisation in a way that best serves exclusively the organisation's aims?…”

Section: (Ir-)rational Leadershipmentioning

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Characteristics of Terrorism

Pittel¹,

Rübbelke²

2011

Handbook on the Economics of Conflict

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Individual terrorist are frequently behaving seemingly absurd, e.g. by carrying out suicide operations, while activities of the terrorist organisations as a whole often seem to be conducted in a very effective way. These facts caused many researchers to regard the leaders representing the organisations like rational entities, while the followers are supposed to be just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all involved agents. We demonstrate how these agents' behaviour could be modelled, while taking into account options of the terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as the follower level can be derived.

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“…Miliora (2004) analyses the psychology of Usama bin Laden and draws the conclusion that three features of his personality are prominent: archaic narcissistic states, paranoia and a Manichean sense of reality. In case this diagnosis is right, would it then be possible that this leader conducts his organisation in a way that best serves exclusively the organisation's aims?…”

Section: (Ir-)rational Leadershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Characteristics of Terrorism

Pittel

Rübbelke

2009

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Characteristics of TerrorismKaren Pittel* and Dirk Rübbelke** February 2009Abstract Individual terrorist are frequently behaving seemingly absurd, e.g. by carrying out suicide operations, while activities of the terrorist organisations as a whole often seem to be conducted in a very effective way. These facts caused many researchers to regard the leaders representing the organisations like rational entities, while the followers are supposed to be just obeying and, hence, to be irrational.In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all involved agents. We demonstrate how these agents' behaviour could be modelled, while taking into account options of the terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as the follower level can be derived.

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The psychology and ideology of an islamic terrorist leader: Usama bin Laden

Abstract: This essay presents what the author proposes are the motivational bases for Usama bin

Cited by 6 publications

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How identity crisis, relative deprivation, personal characteristics, and empathy contribute to the engagement of Western individuals in Islamist terrorist behavior

How identity crisis, relative deprivation, personal characteristics, and empathy contribute to the engagement of Western individuals in Islamist terrorist behavior

Characteristics of Terrorism

Characteristics of Terrorism

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