Causes of Economic Network Survivability of Terrorist Organizations in the Middle East in Political Communication Era

Subject Areas : Middel East

Tahereh Ebrahimi far ¹ , امیر حامد آزاد ²

1 - Faculty of Political Science, Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch
2 - دانشجوی دکترای روابط بین الملل، واحد تهران مرکزی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تهران مرکزی، ایران

Received: 2017-04-13 Accepted : 2017-07-17 Published : 2017-06-22

Keywords: Taliban, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Third Party, financial networks, partisans,

Abstract :

Funding is operating engine of terrorist organizations (national and international Salafist armed organizations) in the Middle East. However, some of these organizations, such as Taliban and ISIS, with the establishment of the so-called state, have loaded the costs of welfare spending of their dominated areas to costs of their war and survival. Hence, consideration of different patterns indicates that national and International Salafist armed organizations, by benefiting from a vast financial network of NGOs, have achieved self-government. But it seems true that this autonomy is based on the determination of some governments to use these organizations for certain changes in the international system in order to achieve their relative benefits. Based on this pattern, the terrorist organizations in the Middle East, by serving the interests of one or more state actors, continue funding their network and thus have retained their survival. Relying on the doctrine of realism regarding the anarchic international system, the only way to undermine or destroy the national and international organization of Salafist financial network in the Middle East is implementing a strategy for increasing the costs of changes in the international system and prevent certain governments to the benefits that result from this process.