This research project applies Social Network Analysis to Saddam Hussein’s network and demonstrates how network analysis techniques uncovered a web of family and tribal linkages that resulted in the ousted dictator’s capture. I use Simmel’s approach to affiliations and interactions among consensual actors as the frame in which to view why and how warfare operates the way it does in the present context…
Contents
1. Introduction
– Project Overview
2. Social Network Analysis
– Social Network Analysis…not Net-Centric Warfare
– The Social Network Fit with the Current Problem
3. Social Network Analysis and Resistance Networks
– Summarized Propositions
4. Insurgent Warfare
– State Failure
– Guerrilla Insurgency
– External Power
– Iraq…and Others
– Conclusion
5. Methods
6. The Case Study – The Network of Saddam Hussein
– The Background and Rise to Power of Saddam Hussein
– Operation Iraqi Freedom
– Operation Red Dawn
– Identifying and Specifying the Network
7. General Network Measures
– The Network of Saddam Hussein
– Trust Mapping Networks
– Strategy and Goals Mapping Networks
– Discussion
8. Actor Measures
– The Network of Saddam Hussein
– Trust Mapping Networks
– Strategy and Goals Mapping Networks
– Discussion
9. Role Analysis
– The Network of Saddam Hussein
– Trust Mapping Networks
– Strategy and Goals Mapping Networks
– Discussion
10. Conclusion
References
Author: Reed, Brian
Source: University of Maryland
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