Understanding Dark Networks (eBook)

A Strategic Framework for the Use of Social Network Analysis

Daniel Cunningham, Sean Everton, Philip Murphy (Autoren)

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2016
330 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-4945-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Written in an accessible manner, this book provides an introduction to Social Network Analysis (SNA), presenting tools and concepts, and showing how SNA can inform the crafting of a wide array of strategies for the tracking and disrupting of dark networks (illegal and covert networks that analysts must track, identify, and dismantle).

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Dark networks are the illegal and covert networks (e.g, insurgents, jihadi groups, or drug cartels) that security and intelligence analysts must track and identify to be able to disrupt and dismantle them. This text explains how this can be done by using the Social Network Analysis (SNA) method. Written in an accessible manner, it provides an introduction to SNA, presenting tools and concepts, and showing how SNA can inform the crafting of a wide array of strategies for the tracking and disrupting of dark networks.

Autor

Daniel Cunningham is associate faculty for instruction in the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, CA. He is also a research associate in the Defense Analysis Department’s Common Operational Research Environment (CORE) Lab. Sean Everton is an associate professor in the Department of Defense Analysis and the co-director of the CORE Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, CA. Philip Murphy is an assistant professor and the director of the Mixed-methods Evaluation and Training (META) Lab at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in the Graduate School of International Policy Studies and a research fellow at the Naval Postgraduate School’s CORE Lab.

Inhalt

Part I: Introduction to Social Network AnalysisPart II: Exploratory Social Network AnalysisPart III: Confirmatory Social Network AnalysisPart IV: ConclusionChapter 12: Lessons LearnedAppendix 1: Data Description And CodebookAppendix 2: Glossary of TermsAppendix 3: Analytic SoftwareReferencesIndexAbout the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 152 Illustrations including: - 33 Black & White Illustrations; - 92 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 27 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Intelligence & Espionage • Political Science • security • terrorism
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-4945-5 / 1442249455
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4945-5 / 9781442249455