How Terrorism Ends : Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns /
Amid the fear following 9/11 and other recent terror attacks, it is easy to forget the most important fact about terrorist campaigns: they always come to an end--and often far more quickly than expected. Contrary to what many assume, when it comes to dealing with terrorism it may be more important t...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Decapitation : catching or killing the leader
- Negotiations : transition toward a legitimate political process
- Success : achieving the objective
- Failure : imploding, provoking a backlash, or becoming marginalized
- Repression : crushing terrorism with force
- Reorientation : transitioning to another modus operandi
- How Al-Qaeda ends : the relevance and irrelevance of history.