General Studies III · Subtopic
Terrorism linkages
Official syllabus
Security challenges and their management in border areas - linkages of organized crime with terrorism.
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What this covers
An organized-crime group and a terrorist organization may transact, share a route, compete or have no relationship. A linkage is a hypothesis to test, not an automatic property of either category. Material profit and political violence are analytically different aims even where tactics overlap.
Key ideas
- Financing
- Logistics
- Shared intermediaries
- Competition
- Evidence of actual cooperation