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The Strategy of Terrorism: How it Works, and Why it Fails

The Strategy of Terrorism: How it Works, and Why it Fails

Neumann, Peter R.
Smith, M. L. R.

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Terrorism Studies

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0415426189
ISBN13: 9780415426183
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2007
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This is the first book to set out a comprehensive framework by which to understand terrorism as strategy. It contends that even terrorism of the supposedly nihilist variety can be viewed as a bona fide method for distributing means to fulfil the ends of policy, that is, as a strategy.

The main purpose of the work is to describe the dynamics of terrorism and evaluate their effectiveness, as well as to theorize upon, and clarify the correlation between, political ends and terrorist means. The text explains the modus operandi of terrorism, and demonstrates how terrorism relies on manipulating the psychological impact of (usually) relatively small-scale attacks. Using a variety of case studies, The Strategy of Terrorism shows how many campaigns of terrorism end in failure when they lose their power to terrify. The authors spell out what a proper understanding of terrorism as a strategy implies for those who want to make terrorism ineffective, and offer a number of policy recommendations derived directly from their critique.

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