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The New Global Terrorism Characteristics, Causes, Controls

by: Kegley, Charles W., Jr.

The New Global Terrorism Characteristics, Causes, Controls

by: Kegley, Charles W., Jr.

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9780130494139
ISBN 10:
0130494135
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/24/2002
Publisher: Pearson

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Summary

This book comprehensively covers the debatable issues regarding the post-September 11th wave of terrorism, the multiple roots of this deadly new form of international violence, and the leading ideas being considered as means for the "war on global terrorism" to be won.Informed and informative interpretations, written by the world's most authoritative scholars especially for this book, present a balanced and accessible set of essays and chapters describing the new international terrain that has emerged in the wake of 9-11. A three-part organization breaks the subject of global terrorism into three categories of analysis, and demonstrates to readers that how terrorism is defined will shape the conclusions that are reached about its causes and remedies.For analyzing present and future acts of terrorism, creating awareness of the obstacles to accurately understanding it, and consideration of the strategies for containing the destructiveness of this deadly phenomena.

Author Biography

Charles W. Kegley is Pearce Professor of International Relations at the University of South Carolina. A past President of the International Studies Association (1993-1994), he has also taught at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, the University of Texas, Rutgers University as the Moses and Annuta Back Peace Scholar, and the People's University of China. In addition, he was a Pew Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.

Kegley is Senior Editor of the Prentice Hall Studies in International Relations: Enduring Questions in Changing Times series devoted to the publication of serious scholarship addressing major problems and issues in international affairs. Among his four dozen book publications, he has recently published From War to Peace: Fateful Decisions in International Politics, Exorcising the Ghost of Westphalia: Building World Order in the New Millennium, World Politics: Trend and Transformation; American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process; How Nations Make Peace, The Global Agenda, Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge, A Multipolar Peace? Great Power Politics in the Twenty First Century; The Long Postwar Peace. Contending Explanations and Projections After the Cold War. Questioning the Morality of Nuclear Deterrence; When Trust Breaks Down: Alliance Norms and World Politics; International Terrorism; and The Nuclear Reader. Strategy, Weapons, War. He has published articles in a wide range of scholarly journals, including The Journal of Peace Research, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Ethics and International Affairs, Cooperation and Conflict, The Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Alternatives, USA Today, Harvard International Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Conflict Management and Peace Science, International Interactions, The Journal of Politics, and the Political Research Quarterly.

I. THE CHANGING CHARACTERISTICS OF TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GLOBAL TERRORISM.

1. International Terrorism: The Other World War, Brian M. Jenkins.
2. The New Face of Combat: Terrorism and Irregular Warfare in the 21st Century, Michael T. Klare.
3. The Four Waves of Rebel Terror and September 11, David C. Rapoport.
4. A Dual Reality: Terrorism against the State and Terrorism by the State, Richard A. Falk.
5. Is There a Good Terrorist? Timothy Garton Ash.
6. The Evolving Strategies of Political Terrorism, Gregory A. Raymond.
7. The Mystery of the New Global Terrorism: Old Myths, New Realities? Michael Stohl.

II. THE CAUSES OF TERRORISM, PAST AND PRESENT.

8. The Causes of Terrorism, Martha Crenshaw.
9. Why Modern Terrorism?: Differentiating Types and Distinguishing Ideological Motivations, Paul Wilkinson.
10. The Psycho-Political Source of Terrorism, Richard E. Rubenstein.
11. Postmodern Terrorism: The Impact of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Walter Laqueur.
12. Why is America the Primary Target? Terrorism as Globalized Civil War, Martha Crenshaw.
13. Is The New Global Terrorism a Clash of Civilizations?: Evaluating Terrorism's Multiple Sources, Llewellyn D. Howell.
14. The Religious Roots of Contemporary Terrorism, Mark Juergensmyer.
15. The Roots of Muslim Rage, Bernard Lewis.
16. Terrorism in Democracies: When It Occurs, Why It Fails, Ted Robert Gurr.

III. THE CONTROL OF THE NEW AGE OF GLOBAL TERRORISM.

17. The Aftermath of 9-11 and the Search for Limits: In Defense of Just War Thinking, Richard A. Falk.
18. Just War Theory: Responding Morally to Global Terrorism, James Turner Johnson.
19. Strategic Intelligence: The Weakest Link in the War against Terrorism, Loch Johnson.
20. Bringing International Law to Bear on the Control of the New Terrorism in the Global Age, David Held.
21. Global Terrorism: Problems of Challenge and Response, Peter C. Sederberg.

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The September 11, 2001 terrorist destruction of New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has stimulated much fresh thinking about the way collegiate instruction in international affairs and national security ought to be organized, and has culminated in reconstruction and revision of conventional coverage concerning the global terrorism now unfolding in the discourse about this problem. Understandably, in the wake of that horrendous 9/11 event and in response to the fear and interest that it provoked, the syllabi of many courses now give expanded coverage to global terrorism as a topic, and numerous new courses dealing exclusively with the subject have been added to the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. However, the available recent scholarship on terrorism arguably has not yet been assembled in a way that accommodates the need for instructional materials for use in the classroom, in light of the troubled new realities that now so stubbornly confront the entire world.There is arguably a notable lag between the perceived new realities and the issues and topics addressed by much of the existing literature prepared primarily to orient students to the key points of debate about the nature, determinants, and means to combat the latest wave of terrorism. Moreover, the contemporary reader who wanders into a bookstore or library to find books and journal articles about international terrorism is likely to walk into a morass of contending views and competing prescriptions, and cannot help coming away feeling more puzzled than enlightened. It is my belief that the commentary regarding the rising threat of global terrorism needs to be put into perspective in a concise but representative sample of prevailing and divergent opinion that clarifies rather than adds to the confusion, while presenting a balanced assessment that allows for the spectrum of disagreement on the major issues to be considered.This book is written primarily for instructors use to aid their students and help them to evaluate the key questions surrounding terrorism, in the aftermath of 9/11. The collection has been assembled by selecting the world's leading experts and asking them to write original interpretations on particular topics. The goal is to provide an integrated anthology for instruction, written in the same accessible language that covers the most important topics and central arguments in the current debate about the nature of today's terrorist threats and methods of containing those multiple threats.Obviously, no book on this topic can cover all issues, and this book is no exception. Without apologizing, this anthology seeks to sample the range of discussion without billing itself as providing a complete picture. Indeed, what has been included for student instruction is extracted from a huge nest of available research and commentary on the subject, and this book only provides a partial glimpse of the range of evaluation that exists. However, to assist instructors, it is important for them to note and to take advantage of the fact that the editor has written detailed introductions to each of the three parts. These essays summarize the key concepts and literature dealing with, respectively, the characteristics, causes, and control of today's terrorism. Each part introduction also provides a rationale for the essays that are presented as well as an overview of each chapter's theme and conclusion, placed into the context of other literature dealing with the same topic. Considerations of space precluded the publication of these extensive part introductions in the text, in the interest of making more space available for the authoritative essays deemed crucial for readers. However, the part introductions are available at the Prentice Hall website. All instructors are encouraged to exploit the information and critical comparative analysis provided by the editor's part introductions, which serves as a han