A Brief Reading List

Academic Articles

Kathleen Carley, “Destabilizing Terrorist Networks,” Proceedings of the 8th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium. Conference held at the National Defense War College, Washington D.C., 2003.

Valdis Krebs, “Uncloaking Terrorist Networks,” First Monday, 2002.

M.K., Sparrow “The application of network analysis to criminal intelligence: An assessment of the prospects,” Social Networks, 1991.

Duncan J. Watts, “Networks, dynamics, and the small-world phenomenon,” American Journal of Sociology, 1999.

Books

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means, 2003.

Stephen Baker, The Numerati, 2008.

Mark Buchanan, Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks, 2003.

Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, 2002.

Marc Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks, 2004.

Marc Sageman, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century, 2008.

Duncan J. Watts, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, 2004.

Duncan J. Watts, Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness, 2003.

News and Press Articles

Noah Shachtman, “How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social — Not Electronic,” Wired Magazine, November 27, 2007.

Washington Post, “The Plot: A Web of Connections,” September 24, 2001.

Sharon Weinberger, “Web of War,” Nature, April 4, 2011.

Chris Wilson, “Searching for Saddam,” Slate, Five-Part series, Feb. 22-26, 2010

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