Terrorism Organizational Structure: A Research On Types And Its Affect

Terrorism organizational structure has a far-reaching effect on terrorism activities and its development.Generally speaking,the formation and development of the terrorism organizational structure is always influenced by factors both from the external and internal of the terrorism organization.Based on this,terrorism organizations tend to adopt network structure or hierarchical structure.The differences between network structure and hierarchical structure mainly are reflected in many ways,majorly including its degree of command-and-control,communication structure,the level of division of labour and specialization.The above differences not only reflect attribution of closeness and openness of terrorist organizations,but also could influence its existence and development so as to satisfying the functional needs of terrorist organizations.Comparing with the terrorist organizational network structure,the property of the hierarchical characteristic of terrorism organizations has stronger lethality,and its discourse system is stricter.In the matter of the relationship with other extremism organizations,terrorism organizations with hierarchical structure usually are more closed,while terrorist organizations with network structure characters are easier to build intimate connection with other terrorism organizations.Studying these not only contribute are beneficial to grasp the inner operation mode and behavior of a terrorist organization,but also provide inspires of policies to combat and dismantle terrorism organizational structure.