# Marc Sageman **Entity class:** Counterterrorism scholar and former intelligence officer **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Marc Sageman** is known for social-network analysis of terrorist mobilization and the “leaderless jihad” account of self-organizing friend and kin clusters. ## Relationships - **authored framework:** [[wiki/Leaderless Jihad|Leaderless Jihad]]. - **debate counterpart:** [[wiki/Bruce Hoffman|Bruce Hoffman]] in the [[wiki/Sageman-Hoffman Debate|Sageman-Hoffman Debate]]. - **method:** [[wiki/Social Network Analysis|Social Network Analysis]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [CIA Studies in Intelligence — review discussion, 2008](https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/volume-52-no-3/the-intelligence-officers-bookshelf/) - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]