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Evaluating Counterterrorism Performance - A Comparative Study (Hardcover)
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Evaluating Counterterrorism Performance - A Comparative Study (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Terrorism Studies
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This book offers a new model for measuring the success and impact
of counterterrorism strategies, using four comparative historical
case studies. The effectiveness of counterterrorism measures is
hard to assess, especially since the social impact of terrorist
attacks is a fundamental and complex issue. This book focuses on
the impact of counterterrorist measures by introducing the concept
of the performative power of counterterrorism: the extent to which
governments mobilize public and political support - thereby
sometimes even unwittingly assisting terrorists in creating social
drama. The concept is applied to counterterrorism in the
Netherlands, Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany and the United
States in the 1970s. Based on in-depth case study research using
new primary sources and interviews with counterterrorist officials
and radicals, a correlation is established between a low level of
performative power and a decline of terrorist incidents. This is
explored in terms of the link between social drama (as enhanced by
counterterrorist measures) and ongoing radicalization processes.
This book demonstrates that an increase in visible and intrusive
counterterrorist measures does not automatically lead to a more
effective form of counterterrorism. In the open democracies of the
west, not transforming counterterrorism into a performance of power
and repression is at least as important as counterterrorism
measures themselves. This book will be of much interest to students
of terrorism and counter-terrorism, discourse analysis, media and
communication studies, conflict studies and IR/Security Studies in
general.
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