Full name: Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Charles Townshend Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780199603947 0199603944

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. Similar books: Terror and Consent by Philip Bobbitt Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer The Age of Sacred Terror by Daniel Benjamin The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff America by Dinesh D'Souza Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin One Nation by Ben Carson A Warning by Anonymous American Nations by Colin Woodard Justice on Trial by Mollie Hemingway Control by Glenn Beck Hillary's America by Dinesh D'Souza Licensed to Lie by Sidney Powell Front Row at the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl The Big Lie by Dinesh D'Souza The Smear by Sharyl Attkisson The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Fascism by Madeleine Albright