An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa'ida in Iraq
Santa Monica, CA: RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2010. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xxii, 92 pages. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations (Figures and Tables with some color). Benjamin Bahney is a political scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where he brings laboratory technical expertise to bear on national security issues in the areas of space, cyber and advanced science and technology. His research interests include strategic stability, deterrence, and escalation management. Ben is currently researching the dynamics of strategic competition in space and cyber. He has won three LLNL Global Security Gold Awards for outstanding research, is a participant in the RAND Counterinsurgency Board of Experts, and has guest lectured on terrorism financing at the Naval Postgraduate School. Ben was formerly an associate at the RAND Corporation, where he published on counter terrorism and the internal dynamics of Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS). Ben received an MA in international affairs from UC San Diego and a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania. More