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Title Contending with terrorism : roots, strategies, and responses / edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xli, 418 pages) : illustrations
Series International security readers
International security readers.
Contents Market civilization and its clash with terror / Michael Mousseau -- Behind the curve : globalization and international terrorism / Audrey Kurth Cronin -- Motives for martyrdom : Al-Qaida, Salafi Jihad, and the spread of suicide attacks / Assaf Moghadam -- The strategies of terrorism / Andrew H. Kydd and Barbara F. Walter -- Why terrorism does not work / Max Abrahms -- Correspondence : does terrorism ever work? : the 2004 Madrid train bombings / William Rose and Rysia Murphy, Max Abrahms -- What terrorists really want : terrorist motives and counterterrorism strategy / Max Abrahms -- Correspondence : what makes terrorists tick / Erica Chenoweth [and others] -- Deterring terrorism : it can be done / Robert F. Trager and Dessislava P. Zagorcheva -- Friends like these : counterinsurgency and the war on terrorism / Daniel L. Byman -- NATO's international security role in the terrorist era / Renée de Nevers -- Assessing the dangers of illicit networks : why Al-Qaida may be less threatening than many think / Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and Calvert Jones -- How Al-Qaida ends : the decline and demise of terrorist groups / Audrey Kurth Cronin
Summary Experts explore the sources of contemporary terrorism, what terrorists want, and how the United States and other countries should respond
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Terrorism.
Terrorism -- Prevention.
Terrorism
terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International)
Terrorism
Terrorism -- Prevention
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Michael E. (Professor), editor
Coté, Owen R. (Professor), editor
Lynn-Jones, Sean M., editor.
Miller, Steven E., editor.
ISBN 9780262289269
0262289261