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The Geometry of Hidden Power: Structure, Strategy, and Survival in Illicit Networks
The Geometry of Hidden Power: Structure, Strategy, and Survival in Illicit Networks
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105229
- ISBN
- 9798291567104
- DDC
- 320
- 서명/저자
- The Geometry of Hidden Power: Structure, Strategy, and Survival in Illicit Networks
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Michigan, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 127 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Fariss, Christopher Jennings.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Decentralized transnational criminal networks are notoriously difficult to detect and dismantle, posing persistent threats to global security. This dissertation investigates how such networks recruit, obscure key actors, and adapt to geopolitical shocks. Using the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the rise and fall of its self-declared caliphate (2013-2022) as a case study, I develop a core-crust model of recruitment, revealing a dense core of leaders and affiliates, a fragmented periphery of fighters, and a strategically hidden layer of intermediaries whose absence from observable data significantly distorts the network's apparent structure. Despite decentralization, I show that covert hierarchies emerge-where the most influential recruitment leader remains absent from public, legal, and media narratives. I further construct a dual typology of U.S.-based ISIS offenders-networked vs. lone and violent vs. nonviolent-and analyze how these operational patterns shift in response to both the organization's territorial ambitions and its subsequent collapse. My findings reveal that territorial losses primarily disrupted nonviolent, networked facilitators, while lone violent actors remained largely unaffected by these external shocks. Together, these findings offer a new framework for identifying and interpreting the hidden architecture of transnational and decentralized illicit networks. The methods and models developed in this dissertation hold relevance beyond terrorism studies, informing policy, intelligence, and enforcement strategies targeting a wide range of illicit, decentralized criminal organizations.
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 일반주제명
- Public policy
- 일반주제명
- Information science
- 키워드
- Illicit networks
- 키워드
- Graph theory
- 키워드
- Hierarchies
- 기타저자
- University of Michigan Information
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aDecentralized transnational criminal networks are notoriously difficult to detect and dismantle, posing persistent threats to global security. This dissertation investigates how such networks recruit, obscure key actors, and adapt to geopolitical shocks. Using the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the rise and fall of its self-declared caliphate (2013-2022) as a case study, I develop a core-crust model of recruitment, revealing a dense core of leaders and affiliates, a fragmented periphery of fighters, and a strategically hidden layer of intermediaries whose absence from observable data significantly distorts the network's apparent structure. Despite decentralization, I show that covert hierarchies emerge-where the most influential recruitment leader remains absent from public, legal, and media narratives. I further construct a dual typology of U.S.-based ISIS offenders-networked vs. lone and violent vs. nonviolent-and analyze how these operational patterns shift in response to both the organization's territorial ambitions and its subsequent collapse. My findings reveal that territorial losses primarily disrupted nonviolent, networked facilitators, while lone violent actors remained largely unaffected by these external shocks. Together, these findings offer a new framework for identifying and interpreting the hidden architecture of transnational and decentralized illicit networks. The methods and models developed in this dissertation hold relevance beyond terrorism studies, informing policy, intelligence, and enforcement strategies targeting a wide range of illicit, decentralized criminal organizations.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0127.
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■653 ▼aSocial network analysis
■653 ▼aGraph theory
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