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Terrorism : a very short introduction

Author: Charles Townshend
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series: Very short introductions, 78.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book charts a path through the outpouring of efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, by asking what makes terrorism different from other forms of political, military action; what makes it effective; and what can be done about it. It unravels complex central questions such as whether terrorists are criminals, whether terrorism is a kind of war, what kind of threat terrorism represents, how far media  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Townshend
ISBN: 0192801686 9780192801685
OCLC Number: 51800679
Description: 157 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Contents: The trouble with terrorism --
Crusaders and conspirators --
The reign of terror --
Revolutionary terrorism --
Nationalism and terror --
Religious terror --
Counterterrorism and democracy.
Series Title: Very short introductions, 78.
Responsibility: Charles Townshend.
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This book charts a path through the outpouring of efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, by asking what makes terrorism different from other forms of political, military action; what makes it effective; and what can be done about it. It unravels complex central questions such as whether terrorists are criminals, whether terrorism is a kind of war, what kind of threat terrorism represents, how far media publicity sustains terrorism, and whether democracy is especially vulnerable to terrorist attack. It examines the historical ideological and local roots of terrorist violence, and the success of specific terrorist and anti-terrorist campaigns in the more distant as well as the recent past.

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