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Making Sense of Suicide Missions (Hardcover, New)
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Making Sense of Suicide Missions (Hardcover, New)
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Suicide attacks have become the defining act of political violence
of our age. From New York City to Baghdad, from Sri Lanka to
Israel, few can doubt that they are a terrifying feature of an
increasing number of violent conflicts. Since 1981, around 30
organizations throughout the world - some of them secular and
others affiliated to radical Islam - have carried out more than 600
suicide missions. Although a tiny fraction of the overall number of
guerrilla and terrorist attacks occurring in the same period, the
results have proved significantly more lethal. This book is the
first to shed real light on these extraordinary acts, and provide
answers to the questions we all ask. Are these the actions of
aggressive religious zealots and unbridled, irrational radicals or
is there a logic driving those behind them? Are their motivations
religious or has Islam provided a language to express essentially
political causes? How can the perpetrators remain so lucidly
effective in the face of certain death? And do these disparate
attacks have something like a common cause? For nearly three years,
this team of internationally distinguished scholars has pursued an
unprejudiced inquiry, investigating organizers and perpetrators
alike of this extraordinary phenomenon. Close comparisons between a
whole range of cases raise challenging further questions: if
suicide missions are so effective, why are they not more common? If
killing is what matters, why not stick to 'ordinary' violent means?
Or, if dying is what matters, why kill in the process? Making Sense
of Suicide Missions contains a wealth of original information and
innovative analysis which further our understanding of this
chilling feature of the contemporary world in radically new and
unexpected ways.
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