What drives terrorist innovation? Lessons from black September and Munich 1972

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dc.contributor.authorSilke, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorFilippidou, Anastasia
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-30T17:54:55Z
dc.date.available2019-05-30T17:54:55Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-22
dc.description.abstractUnderstanding terrorist innovation has emerged as a critical research question. Terrorist innovation challenges status quo assumptions about the nature of terrorist threats and emphasises a need for counterterrorism policy and practice to attempt to not simply react to changes in terrorist tactics and strategies but also to try to anticipate them. This study focused on a detailed examination of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack and draws on the wide range of open source accounts available, including from terrorists directly involved but also from among the authorities and victims. Using an analytical framework proposed by Rasmussen and Hafez (Terrorist innovations in weapons of mass effect: preconditions, causes and predictive indicators, The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Washington, DC, 2010), several key drivers are identified and described, both internal to the group and external to its environment. The study concludes that the innovation shown by Black September was predictable and that Munich represented a profound security failure as much as it did successful terrorist innovation.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationSilke A, Filippidou A. (2019) What drives terrorist innovation? Lessons from black September and Munich 1972. Security Journal, Volume 33, June 2020, pp. 210-227en_UK
dc.identifier.cris23433344
dc.identifier.issn0955-1662
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-019-00181-x
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/14221
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSpringer - Palgrave Macmillanen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectTerrorismen_UK
dc.subjectterrorist innovationen_UK
dc.subjectMunich 1972en_UK
dc.subjectBlack Septemberen_UK
dc.titleWhat drives terrorist innovation? Lessons from black September and Munich 1972en_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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