Eli Berman Quoted on Terrorism Challenge After bin Laden
Wider terrorism challenge after bin Laden
05/07/2011
Killing Osama bin Laden was no easy task, taking years of incremental intelligence work, painstaking analysis of clues and finally a risky decision to launch a nighttime raid in a foreign country.
What comes after the death of the al-Qaeda founder and leader might be even harder, terrorism experts said.
The United States will continue to deal with a world full of terrorist threats from a variety of groups that operate in many locations and act out of myriad motivations. That makes the task of countering terrorism more problematic.
“The threat we are facing is that al-Qaeda is more than one organization,” said Dipak Gupta, a political science professor at San Diego State University. “It has metastasized into a social movement that relies less on the hierarchy of an actual organization and more on inspiring people through the Internet and other means.”
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Eli Berman is an associate professor of economics at UC San Diego and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also currently Research Director for International Security Studies at the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
