Terror Disrupted

Terrorism and organised violence are crucially reliant on adequate sources of funding. Blocking those sources has thus become a key goal of national security services in most countries through the world. Terror Disrupted is the first book to provide an insider's account of how national security services have worked to understand how terrorist groups and organisations are financed and what the best ways are to block such financing. It goes beyond banks to examine the private sector and cryptocurrency forensic firms who are on the front lines of countering terrorist access to new forms of value, like cryptocurrency. Investigating the ways the US and other governments have struggled to tackle the financing of terrorism by the radical right, it describes the various ways in which governments and the private sector can counter terrorist access to finance and fight the financing of groups like ISIS and al-Qa'ida.

Table of Contents:
Preface; 1. Why does Terrorist Finance Matter? 2. Terrorist Finance, What is It? 3. The Financing of the Radical Right – And Why Countering Isn't Working; 4. The Financing of ISIS and How It Was Countered – A Template for Success? 5. Intelligence and the Countering of Terrorist Financing; 6. Terrorist Designations – An Inside Look at the United States Department of State's Process to Sanction Terrorists; 7. Countering State Sponsors of Terrorism; 8. Multilateral Approaches to Countering Terrorist Access to Finance: A Look at the Roles Played by the Financial Action Task Force and the United Nations; 9. The Role of the Private Sector in Countering Terrorist Financing and the Importance of Public-Private Partnerships; 10. Cryptocurrency: Key Source of Terrorist Finance or Much Ado About Nothing? 11. Conclusion.

About the Author :
Jason Blazakis is a Professor of Global Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS). He is also the Executive Director of MIIS's Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC). He served as the Director of the Counterterrorism Finance and Designations Office, Bureau of Counterterrorism, US Department of State. He has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Time Magazine, Foreign Affairs, The Hill, Philadelphia Inquirer, Lawfare and other publications.