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.
- ISBN10 0192801686
- ISBN13 9780192801685
- Publish Date 10 October 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 August 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 168
- Language English