Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Literature Review and Research Design
2. Founders: Who Is a Founder, What Does He Do, and Who Comes
Next?
3. The Second Ku Klux Klan: From Founder to Fixer
4. Egyptian Islamic Jihad: From Founder to Figureheads, to Fixer,
to Visionary
5. Al-Qaida in Iraq/the Islamic State of Iraq: From Founder to
Signalers
6. Al-Shabaab: From Founder to Fixer, to Figurehead
7. Pathways and Possibilities: Lessons Learned from the Mini–Case
Studies
Conclusion
Appendix A. Religious Terrorist Groups
Appendix B. Summary of Mini–Case Study Data
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Tricia L. Bacon is an associate professor in the School of Public
Affairs at American University and director of the Policy
Anti-Terrorism Hub. She is the author of Why Terrorist Groups Form
International Alliances (2018). She previously spent ten years
working on counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State.
Elizabeth Grimm is an associate professor of teaching in the
Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown University. She is the author of How the
Gloves Came Off: Lawyers, Policy Makers, and Norms in the Debate on
Torture (2017). She has also worked in the defense and security
sectors of the U.S. government.
Meticulous in its research, Terror in Transition delivers an
abundance of new insight into the impact of succession on terrorist
entities, delivering on its objective to better “analyze the
implications of decapitation.” Focusing on the essence of a
leader’s “how” and “why” and its relationship to succession, Terror
in Transition also provides CT practitioners with a framework to
assess other options for influencing the direction of terrorist
entities.
*Gina M. Bennett, author of National Security Mom: Why Going
Soft Will Make America Strong*
Terror in Transition is the definitive study of how terrorist
groups manage (or fail to manage) leadership transitions. Bacon and
Grimm's analysis helps us understand how and why certain terrorist
groups thrive while some split or otherwise cannot manage the
transition. Their many insights can help counterterrorist officials
exploit transition tensions to weaken extremist groups.
*Daniel Byman, author of Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of
White Supremacist Terrorism*
An original, systematic, detailed, and rigorous analysis of
terrorist leadership and succession. A very compelling study of a
major topic.
*Richard English, author of Does Terrorism Work?: A
History*
Meticulous in its research, Terror in Transition delivers an
abundance of new insight into the impact of succession on terrorist
entities, delivering on its objective to better “analyze the
implications of decapitation.” Focusing on the essence of a
leader’s “how” and “why” and its relationship to succession, Terror
in Transition also provides CT practitioners with a framework to
assess other options for influencing the direction of terrorist
entities.
*Gina M. Bennett, author of National Security Mom: Why Going
Soft Will Make America Strong*
Bacon and Grimm have written an outstanding book, essential reading
for anyone seeking to understand terrorist organizations, or
leadership of violent groups in general.
*Small War Journals*
It rewards unpacking owing to its analytic soundness, practical
utility and, lamentably, its ongoing relevance.
*Survival*
An important conceptual and knowledge-based foundation, which will
undoubtedly be built on for years to come.
*Parameters*
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