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From financing needs to criminal terrorism: The role of terrorist financing in crime-terror relations

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This article examines how long-standing international efforts to block terrorist financing have constrained traditional funding channels, prompting terrorist groups to increasingly engage with organised crime or transform into hybrid criminal-terrorist entities. The authors analyse how counter-financing measures have reshaped the relationships between terrorist and criminal networks, highlighting changes in organisational behaviour, funding strategies, and cooperation models across diverse economic, political, and social contexts.

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