| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvi, 451 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Structural analysis in the social sciences ; 34 |
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Structural analysis in the social sciences ; 34
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Social network analysis: techniques -- Social network analysis: metrics -- Social network analysis: advances -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Disrupting dark networks focuses on how social network analysis can be used to craft strategies to track, destabilize and disrupt covert and illegal networks. The book begins with an overview of the key terms and assumptions of social network analysis and various counterinsurgency strategies. The next several chapters introduce readers to algorithms and metrics commonly used by social network analysts. They provide worked examples from four different social network analysis software packages (UCINET, NetDraw, Pajek and ORA) using standard network data sets as well as data from an actual terrorist network that serves as a running example throughout the book. The book concludes by considering the ethics of and various ways that social network analysis can inform counterinsurgency strategizing. By contextualizing these methods in a larger counterinsurgency framework, this book offers scholars and analysts an array of approaches for disrupting dark networks |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-443) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 29, 2013) |
| Subject |
Social networks.
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Social sciences -- Network analysis.
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COMPUTERS -- Web -- Social Networking.
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Social networks
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Social sciences -- Network analysis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139776691 |
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113977669X |
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9781139136877 |
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1139136879 |
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9781139779739 |
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1139779737 |
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9781139782722 |
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113978272X |
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9781139782722 |
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