{"571091":{"#nid":"571091","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Does Killing Terrorist Leaders Make Any Difference? Scholars Are Doubtful","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJenna Jordan, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was prominently cited concerning her work on terrorist organization decapitation in \u0022Does Killing Terrorist Leaders Make Any Difference? Scholars are Doubtful\u0022 by\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E The New York Times.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJust like any other bureaucracy, such groups have clearly delineated hierarchies, internal rules and divisions of responsibility. That clarity means it is easy to replace a leader with a deputy. It also makes the organization stable: If one cog falls out, the rest of the machine can still function.\u0026nbsp;For a group as large and complex as the Islamic State, the infrastructure is simply too large for any one person, even a top leader, to make or break its future.\u0026nbsp;This is why terrorism scholars have repeatedly concluded that killing or capturing terrorist leaders \u2014 a strategy known, colorfully, as \u201cdecapitation\u201d \u2014 does not work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/31\/world\/middleeast\/syria-killing-terrorist-leaders.html\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"32788","created_gmt":"2016-08-31 10:57:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:22","author":"Anna Cathryn Finch","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/31\/world\/middleeast\/syria-killing-terrorist-leaders.html","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"385641":{"id":"385641","type":"image","title":"Jenna Jordan","body":null,"created":"1449246262","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:22","changed":"1475894398","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:58","alt":"Jenna Jordan","file":{"fid":"75404","name":"jennajordanweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jennajordanweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jennajordanweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":132872,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jennajordanweb.jpg?itok=7OdNAQjB"}}},"media_ids":["385641"],"groups":[{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"8682","name":"counterterrorism"},{"id":"997","name":"terrorism"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}