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Genre/Form: | Case studies History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Forest, James J.F. Terrorism lectures. Santa Ana, CA : Nortia/Current, ©2012 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James J F Forest |
ISBN: | 0984835954 9780984835959 |
OCLC Number: | 823378051 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Part I : definitions and historical frameworks. An introduction to terrorism : terms, definitions and the quest for power -- Surfing the historical "waves" of terrorism -- Terrorist groups as learning organizations -- Part II : Underlying contexts that motivate and facilitate terrorism. Grievances and opportunities : an introduction -- Radicalization -- Media and the internet -- Economic dimensions -- Financial and criminal dimensions -- Political dimensions -- Part III : Terrorist group ideologies and strategies. Ethnonationalist/separatist terrorism -- Left-wing terrorism -- Right-wing terrorism -- Religious terrorism -- Al-Qaeda, part 1 : history and evolution -- Al-Qaeda, Part 2 : ideology and targeting strategies -- Part IV : The worst weapons of terrorism. Suicide bombings -- Weapons of mass destruction : an introduction -- Assessing the WMD terrorist threat -- Part V : Concluding thoughts. The future of terrorism. |
Responsibility: | James J.F. Forest. |
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