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• TITLE: Networks, Social Capital, and Social Liability: The Case of Pakistani ISI, the Taliban and the War against Terrorism

  AUTHORS: Shaul M. Gabbay

  KEYWORDS: Pakistan, ISI, Taliban, Social Networks, Social Capital

  JOURNAL NAME: Social Networking, Vol.3 No.5, October 30, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Pakistan is one of the most important players as well as a playground frontier of the global war on terrorism beginning from September 11 to the present. In this paper we delineate the complexities of the war against terrorism taking a social network approach. The paper argues that one of the main challenges for fighting terrorism in places such as Pakistan is the social network ties which exit between the different constituencies, sometimes constituencies which are seemingly on opposing sides. The paper uses social capital of organizations to map the capital and liabilities of strong and weak ties between the Pakistani intelligence service (ISI) and the Taliban and how they change over time.