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Terrorism - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
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Terrorism - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
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The causes and consequences of terrorism are matters of
considerable debate and great interest. Spectacular events are
recognized by their dates, including the 9/11 attacks in New York
and Washington and the 7/7 London bombings. Many other attacks,
including those in non-Western countries, receive far less
attention even though they may be more frequent and cumulatively
cause more casualties. In Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG,
leading economist Todd Sandler provides a broad overview of a
persistently topical topic. The general issues he examines include
what terrorism is, its causes, the roles of terrorist groups, how
governments seek to counter terrorism, its economic consequences,
and the future of terrorism. He focuses on the modern era and how
specific motivations, ranging from nationalism/separatism to left-
or right-wing extremism or religious ideals, and general
conditions, such as poverty and inequality or whether a country is
democratic or authoritarian, affect the frequency and costs of
terrorism. The diversity of terrorist groups and type of attacks
can be overwhelming, and Sandler provides a unifying framework to
generate insight: strategic interaction. That is, like other
organizations, terrorist groups organize to pursue goals and
respond in an optimal fashion to a risky environment that can
influence the group's size, its diversity of attacks, its regional
location, its host country's characteristics, and the group's
ideology. Terrorists also responded to enhanced security measures
by altering their tactics, targets, and location. As such, they are
formidable opponents to their stronger government adversaries.
Governments, in turn, pursue various costly strategies to prevent
terrorism, including passive barriers and active attacks against
terrorists, their resources, and those who support them. Terrorism
covers numerous questions on the subject and sheds lights on a
wide-range of theoretical and empirical research.
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