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Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism : Understanding the New Security Environment, Readings and Interpretations

9780072837780

Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism : Understanding the New Security Environment, Readings and Interpretations

  • ISBN 13:

    9780072837780

  • ISBN 10:

    0072837780

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 09/04/2002
  • Publisher: MCG
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Summary

Colonel Russell Howard and Captain Reid Sawyer have collected and organized new and reprinted articles and essays by political scientists, government officials, and members of the nation's armed forces. The editors and several of the authors write from practical field experience in the nation's war on terrorism. Others have had significant responsibility for planning government policy and responses. The contributors include a majority of the significant names in the field including General Barry McCaffrey, Martha Crenshaw, Bruce Hoffman, Barry Posen, Jessica Stern, Ashton Carter. Part One of the book analyzes the philosophical, political, and religious roots of terrorist activities around the world and discusses the national, regional, and global effects of historical and recent acts of terrorism. In addition to material on the threats from suicide bombers, as well as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons, there are also important contributions analyzing new and growing threats: narco-terrorism, cyber-terrorism, genomic terrorism, and agro-ter

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