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The making of a terrorist : recruitment, training, and root causes
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The making of a terrorist : recruitment, training, and root causes

Author: James J F Forest
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: James J F Forest
ISBN: 0275985431 : alk. paper) 9780275985431 ((set) : alk. paper) 027598544X (v. 1 : alk. paper) 9780275985448 (v. 1 : alk. paper) 0275985458 (v. 2 : alk. paper) 9780275985455 (v. 2 : alk. paper) 0275985466 (v. 3 : alk. paper) 9780275985462 (v. 3 : alk. paper
OCLC Number: 60741966
Description: 3 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: V. 1. Recruitment -- v.2. Training -- v. 3. Root causes. V. 1. Exploring the recruitment of terrorists: an introduction / James J.F. Forest -- PT. 1. PLACE AND MEANS OF TERRORIST RECRUITMENT. Innovative recruitment and indoctrination tactics by extremists: video games, hip-hop, and the World Wide Web / Madeleine Gruen -- Prisons as terrorist breeding grounds / J. Michael Waller -- Communication and recruitment of terrorists / Brigitte L. Nacos -- Terrorist dot com: using the Internet for terrorist recruitment and mobilization / Gabriel Weimann -- Education and radicalization: Jemaah Islamiyah recruitment in Southeast Asia / Zachary Abuza -- Recruitment for rebellion and terrorism in the Philippines / Joseph Felter -- PT. 2. SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS. The new children of terror / P.W. Singer -- Hamas social welfare: in the service of terror / Matthew A. Levitt -- Terrorism, gender, and ideology: a case study of women who join the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) / Keith Stanski -- The making of suicide bombers: a comparative perspective / Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger -- Unresolved trauma and the thirst for revenge: the retributional terrorist / Raymond H. Hamden -- PT. 3. IDEOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS. Political and revolutionary ideologies / Leonard Weinberg -- The role of religious ideology in modern terrorist recruitment / J.P. Larsson -- Christian fundamentalism and militia movements in the United States / James Aho -- Political Islam: violence and the Wahhabi connection / Maha Azzam -- Jihad doctrine and radical Islam / Jarret Brachman -- Zionism and the pursuit of West Bank settlements / Allan C. Brownfield -- Appendix A. Profiles of terrorist organizations -- Appendix B. Al Qaeda declarations of war. V. 2. Exploring the training of terrorists: an introduction / James J.F. Forest -- PT. 1. TEACHING TOOLS AND DEVELOPMENTAL EXPERIENCES. "When hatred is bred in the bone": the sociocultural underpinnings of terrorist psychology / Jerrold M. Post -- Training for terrorism through selective moral disengagement / Albert Bandura -- Cults, charismatic groups, and social systems: understanding the transformation of terrorist recruits / Marc Galanter and James J.F. Forest -- The psychological power of charismatic leaders in cults and terrorist organizations / Arthur J. Deikman -- Teaching terrorism: dimensions of information and technology / James J.F. Forest -- Mediated terror: teaching terrorism through propaganda and publicity / Brigitte L. Nacos -- PT. 2. CASE STUDIES OF TERRORIST LEARNING. Training for urban resistance: the case of the Provisional Irish Republican Army / Brian A. Jackson -- Teaching new terrorist recruits: a review of training manuals from the Uzbekistan Mujahideen / Martha Brill Olcott and Bakhtiyar Babajanov -- Learning to die: suicide terrorism in the twenty-first century / Adam Dolnik -- The terrorist training camps of al Qaeda / Rohan Gunaratna and Arabinda Acharya -- The Mujahideen of Bosnia: origins, training, and implications / Evan Kohlmann -- Indoctrination processes within Jemaah Islamiyah / Kumar Ramakrishna -- Christian militia training: arming the "troops" with scripture, the law, and a good gun / Cindy C. Combs, Elizabeth A. Combs, and Lydia Marsh -- The Hizballah training camps of Lebanon / Magnus Ranstorp -- The human factor in insurgency: recruitment and training in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) / Román D. Ortiz -- The making of Aum Shinrikyō's chemical weapons program / John V. Parachini -- Terrorist training centers around the world: a brief review / James J.F. Forest -- Appendix: Examples of training manuals for terrorism and guerilla warfare. V. 3. Exploring root causes of terrorism: an introduction / James J.F. Forest -- PT. 1. POLITICAL DIMENSIONS. Instability and opportunity: the origins of terrorism in weak and failed states / Erica Chenoweth -- Superpower foreign policies: a source for global resentment / Paul R. Pillar -- A failure to communicate: American public diplomacy in the Islamic world / Hassan Abbas -- The complex relationship between global terrorism and U.S. support for Israel / Ruth Margolies Beitler -- Political repression and violent rebellion in the Muslim World / Mohammed M. Hafez -- Rejection of political institutions by right-wing extremists in the United States / Eugenia K. Guilmartin -- PT. 2. RELIGIOUS AND SOCIOECONOMIC DIMENSIONS. Religious sources of violence / Susanna Pearce -- Terrorism and doomsday / Michael Barkun -- Fueling the fires: the oil factor in Middle Eastern terrorism / Michael T. Klare -- Socioeconomic and demographic roots of terrorism / Paul R> Ehrlich and Jianguo Liu -- The intersection of terrorism and the drug trade / Vanda Felbab-Brown -- Terrorism and export economies: the dark side of free trade / Michael Mousseau -- PT. 3. ALTERNATIVE VIEWS ON ROOT CAUSES OF TERRORISM. Terrorism, interdependence, and democracy / Benjamin R. Barber -- Human security and good governance: a living systems approach to understanding and combating terrorism / Madelfia A> Abb and Cindy R. Jebb -- Terrorism and the state: the logic of killing civilians / Clark R. McCauley -- Digging deep: environment and geography as root influences for terrorism / P.H. Liotta and James F. Miskel -- Dealing with the roots of terror / Karin von Hippel -- Appendix: Recommended resources for the study of terrorism.
Responsibility: edited by James J. F. Forest.
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