Résumé
The author describes "the New Economy of Terror," a fast-growing international economic system with a turnover of about $1.5 trillion [that] is challenging Western hegemony. It is made up of illegal businesses such as arms and narcotics trading and oil and diamond smuggling, as well as charitable donations, hawala exchanges and legal profits. Napoleoni reveals the interdependency between economies run by armed groups and Western economies. She concudes that: "As in the Crusades, religion is simply a recruitment tool; the real driving force is economics."
Contenu
1. The dilemma of terrorism: war or crime? -- 2. The macroeconomics of terror. 3. The privatisation of terror. -- 4. Terror reaganomics. -- 5. The birth of the terror state-shell. -- 6. Towards a new world disorder. -- 7. Islamist economics. -- 8. Terror Jihad: the islamist Crusades. -- 9. Islamist financial colonization. -- 10. The economic forces of islamist colonization. -- 11. The mosque network. -- 12. Weak states: breeding ground of terror. -- 13. From modern Jihad to the new economy of terror. -- 14. Terror's legitimate business. -- 15. Terror's balance of payments. -- 16. State-shell economics. -- 17. The globalization of the new economy of terror. -- 18. Globalization, terror's unwilling ally.