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The origins and rise of dissident Irish republicanism : the role and impact of organizational splits
\"Throughout its history the Irish Republican Movement has been beset by splits. The former paramilitary and author Brendan Behan famously quipped that, 'The first thing on the agenda was always the split.' In this in-depth research Morrison analyses the splits through his extensive range of interviews with leadership and rank and file members of the political and paramilitary wings of the Movement. This timely analysis shows how the splits have both aided the politicization of Sinn Fein and the Provisional IRA while in parallel they have brought about the recent intensification of dissident Republican paramilitary activity. He charts the rise of groups including the Real IRA, Continuity IRA and the newly emerging 'New IRA.' By applying his unique process model of splits Morrison provides an insightful analysis of this long-lasting terrorist movement\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Spatio-temporal patterns of IED usage by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
In this paper, a unique dataset of improvised explosive device attacks during “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland (NI) is analysed via a Hawkes process model. It is found that this past dependent model is a good fit to improvised explosive device attacks yielding key insights about the nature of terrorism in NI. We also present a novel approach to quantitatively investigate some of the sociological theory surrounding the Provisional Irish Republican Army which challenges previously held assumptions concerning changes seen in the organisation. Finally, we extend our use of the Hawkes process model by considering a multidimensional version which permits both self and mutual-excitations. This allows us to test how the Provisional Irish Republican Army responded to past improvised explosive device attacks on different geographical scales from which we find evidence for the autonomy of the organisation over the six counties of NI and Belfast. By incorporating a second dataset concerning British Security Force (BSF) interventions, the multidimensional model allows us to test counter-terrorism (CT) operations in NI where we find subsequent increases in violence.
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The terrorist's dilemma
How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit?The Terrorist's Dilemmais the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups are structured. Employing a broad range of agency theory, historical case studies, and terrorists' own internal documents, Jacob Shapiro provocatively discusses the core managerial challenges that terrorists face and illustrates how their political goals interact with the operational environment to push them to organize in particular ways.
Shapiro provides a historically informed explanation for why some groups have little hierarchy, while others resemble miniature firms, complete with line charts and written disciplinary codes. Looking at groups in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, he highlights how consistent and widespread the terrorist's dilemma--balancing the desire to maintain control with the need for secrecy--has been since the 1880s. Through an analysis of more than a hundred terrorist autobiographies he shows how prevalent bureaucracy has been, and he utilizes a cache of internal documents from al-Qa'ida in Iraq to outline why this deadly group used so much paperwork to handle its people. Tracing the strategic interaction between terrorist leaders and their operatives, Shapiro closes with a series of comparative case studies, indicating that the differences in how groups in the same conflict approach their dilemmas are consistent with an agency theory perspective.
The Terrorist's Dilemmademonstrates the management constraints inherent to terrorist groups and sheds light on specific organizational details that can be exploited to more efficiently combat terrorist activity.
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Making Peace with Referendums: Cyprus and Northern Ireland
Referendums have become an undeniably important, and perhaps inescapable, peacemaking tool in contemporary peace processes. As such, understanding the ways in which referendum outcomes are shaped by peace negotiations is vital. Drawing upon two case studies, Amaral presents an empirically rich comparative analysis of the Annan Plan in Cyprus and the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. She examines the negotiations, offering new interview material with key political and civil figures involved in the peace negotiations and referendum campaigns in both cases. Amaral argues that referendums are unsuitable for traditional secretive and exclusionist peace negotiations that fail to engage and educate the public. They rather require inclusive negotiations that involve a broad spectrum of political stakeholders and civil society at the early stages of the process. This peacemaking approach can allow referendums to positively shape societies in conflict and be a crucial step toward lasting peace.
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The diffusion of military power
The Diffusion of Military Power examines how the financial and organizational challenges of adopting new methods of fighting wars can influence the international balance of power. Michael Horowitz argues that a state or actor wishing to adopt a military innovation must possess both the financial resources to buy or build the technology and the internal organizational capacity to accommodate any necessary changes in recruiting, training, or operations. How countries react to new innovations--and to other actors that do or don't adopt them--has profound implications for the global order and the likelihood of war.
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The hoods
A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary shootings and assaults were attributed to paramilitaries punishing their own people. But despite the risk of severe punishment, young petty offenders--known locally as \"hoods\"--continue to offend, creating a puzzle for the rational theory of criminal deterrence. Why do hoods behave in ways that invite violent punishment?
InThe Hoods, Heather Hamill explains why this informal system of policing and punishment developed and endured and why such harsh punishments as beatings, \"kneecappings,\" and exile have not stopped hoods from offending. Drawing on a variety of sources, including interviews with perpetrators and victims of this violence, the book argues that the hoods' risky offending may amount to a game in which hoods gain prestige by displaying hard-to-fake signals of toughness to each other. Violent physical punishment feeds into this signaling game, increasing the hoods' status by proving that they have committed serious offenses and can \"manfully\" take punishment yet remained undeterred. A rare combination of frontline research and pioneering ideas,The Hoodshas important implications for our fundamental understanding of crime and punishment.
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‘1974 – Year of Liberty’?
Were Republicans, as the Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, claimed, responsible for the collapse of the Executive? Cosgrave’s charge was that the campaign of the IRA ‘has sparked a massive sectarian backlash’ (White, 2006 : 215). In response the President of Provisional Sinn Féin, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, claimed that Cosgrave was looking for a scapegoat for his government’s failure to address the ‘real cause’ of the violence in Northern Ireland: partition and the British presence (Ibid.). In fact Cosgrave’s blaming of Republicans was at odds with the negotiating position which his government had adopted both during and after the Sunningdale conference. The
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The Primacy of Grievance as a Structural Cause of Oppositional Political Terrorism: Comparing Al Fatah, FARC, and PIRA
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Objective
Case Selection
Al‐Fatah
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA)
Comparisons
Conclusion
References
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The Political Offense Exception and Terrorism
U.S. Department of State. Office of the Legal Advisor announces amendment to Extradition Treaties with United Kingdom to cover cases of Terrorists in an attempt to deny support to members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
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Memo Forwarding Information on Iranian Political Factions to Charles Allen and Duane Clarridge - Source of the Information is Manucher Ghorbanifar
Manucher Ghorbanifar proposes fake Killings of Mohammad al-Mugarieff to humiliate Muammar Qaddafi; Manucher Ghorbanifar group uses Recruits from [Iraq; Lebanon; Syria] to carry out actions in Western Europe using Provisional Irish Republican Army Military equipment; Moderates in Iran appeal to contacts in United States to support structures that oppose Soviet Union influence after the death of Ruhollah Khomeini; Moderates faction within the Iran. Islamic Government favors [Anti-communism; Private sector]; Manucher Ghorbanifar describes Political conditions in Iran; Manucher Ghorbanifar describes political lines of Iran. Islamic Government factions including supporters of [Mullahs; Iran. Armed Forces; Private sector]; Terrorism support within Iran. Islamic Government comes from radical Islamic sects with leftist outlook on internal Social conditions; Moderates faction of Iran. Islamic Government favors contact with [United States; Western Europe]; Manucher Ghorbanifar indicates that Iranian citizens in Political coalitions are fighting each other within the Iran. Islamic Government
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