{"652670":{"#nid":"652670","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Experts Review Jordan\u2019s Book on Leadership Targeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJenna Jordan, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, published a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=30621\u0022\u003Ebook\u003C\/a\u003E in 2019 titled \u003Cem\u003ELeadership Decapitation: Strategic Targeting of Terrorist Organizations\u003C\/em\u003E. The book examines how and why some terrorist groups continue to succeed without their leader while others fall apart. Recently, four academics and researchers gathered to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tnsr.org\/roundtable\/book-review-roundtable-leadership-targeting\/\u0022\u003Ediscuss and review\u003C\/a\u003E Jordan\u0026rsquo;s book in a roundtable.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EReviewers analyzed Jordan\u0026rsquo;s research and proposed frameworks for such issues as the limitations of decapitation strikes, leader targeting, and the scope of leadership decapitation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Jordan\u0026rsquo;s work raises a number of important questions, such as when and why decapitation happens and what the distinctions are between terrorist groups and insurgencies,\u0026rdquo; wrote reviewer Megan Stewart, an associate professor at American University. \u0026ldquo;These questions offer a number of promising avenues for future scholarship.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA roundtable of academics and researchers discussed the policies outline in the book.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A roundtable of academics and researchers discussed the policies outline in the book."}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2021-11-10 16:12:25","changed_gmt":"2021-11-10 16:13:06","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588593":{"id":"588593","type":"image","title":"Jenna Jordan","body":null,"created":"1489174780","gmt_created":"2017-03-10 19:39:40","changed":"1489174780","gmt_changed":"2017-03-10 19:39:40","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224306","name":"jordan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jordan.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jordan.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":429488,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jordan.jpg?itok=havgRx46"}}},"media_ids":["588593"],"groups":[{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gwyner3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs | School of Public Policy\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}