| | Document Type | : | BL | Record Number | : | 104634 | Doc. No | : | b62179 | Main Entry | : | Gupta, Dipak K. | Title & Author | : | Understanding terrorism and political violence :the life cycle of birth, growth, transformation, and demise /Dipak K. Gupta. | Publication Statement | : | London ;New York :Routledge,2008. | Series Statement | : | Political violence | Page. NO | : | xix, 283 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm. | ISBN | : | 9780415771641 (hbk.) | | | 0415771641 (hbk.) | | | 9780415771658 (pbk.) | | | 041577165X (pbk.) | | | 9780203930274 (ebk.) | | | 0203930274 (ebk.) | Bibliographies/Indexes | : | Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-273) and index. | Contents | : | Foreword / by Martha Crenshaw -- Preface: "The years that try a man's soul": a personal narrative -- Introduction -- Theories on the origins of movements -- Selfish altruist: modeling the mind of a terrorist -- The dynamics of dissent: a theoretical perspective -- Faith, nationalism, and class warfare: the birth of a movement -- Growth of a movement: accounting for rapid escalation of violence -- A marriage made in hell? Terrorism and organized crime -- Demise of dissent: the endgame of terrorism -- Terrorism's trap: a winnable war? -- Appendix A: Trade-off between interests of the individual and the collective: an expanded assumption of rationality -- Appendix B: Terrorism and organized crime: a formal model. | Subject | : | Terrorism-- Social aspects. | Subject | : | Political violence-- Social aspects. | Dewey Classification | : | 363.325 | LC Classification | : | HV6431.G856 2008 |
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