Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Rasmussen, Maria. Second Reader: Moran, Daniel. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 26, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Lone Wolf Terrorism, Radicalization, Terrorist Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-85). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A. in International Security and Civil-Military Relations)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Donald Abenheim, Robert Looney. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2008. / Thesis Advisor(s): Morag, Nadav ; Rollins, John. "December 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 30, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-231). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Texas, Dec., 2007. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Kentucky University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-58).

Presented as the author's doctoral dissertation, Pardee Rand Graduate School, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-243). Also available electronically via the World Wide Web in PDF format.

Thesis (M. A.)--University of Canterbury, 2006. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-144). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Terrorist havens are an imortant policy problem today. The policy and academic literature has generally concluded that failed states are more likely to be terrorist havens, but some have begun to question this conventional wisdom. While the link between state failure and terrorist havens is fairly clear, it does not tell the entire story. This thesis borrows from an aspect of social mobilization theory to try to explain why some havens are more resilient to outside pressure than others. It argues that a shared collective identity between the group providing haven and the havened terrorist group makes the havening group less likely to buckle under outside pressure. To test this theory, the thesis compares the frames that define al Qaeda's collective identity with those of the Sudanese National Islamic Front and the Afghan Taliban to see if observed variation in haven resiliency can be explained by the levels of shared collective identities in each case. The findings suggest that the theory can account for the variation in resiliency, while raising new questions for future research.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Morag, Nadav ; Brannan, David. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 27, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Criminal organizations, Terrorist organizations, Drug trafficking organizations, Human smuggling, Information sharing, Corruption, Terrorism, Irish Republican Army, Asylum, Mexico. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-98). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, August, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.