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" Terrorism's unanswered questions / "
edited by Adam B. Lowther and Beverly Lindsay.
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BL
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999116
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b753486
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Terrorism's unanswered questions /\ edited by Adam B. Lowther and Beverly Lindsay.
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Westport, Conn. :: Praeger Security International,, 2009.
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1 online resource (x, 239 pages) :: illustrations
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0313353239
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: 1282420836
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: 6612420839
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: 9780313353239
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: 9781282420830
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: 9786612420832
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0313353220
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9780313353222
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and index.
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| Contents
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Prefacing our current journey on terrorism / Beverly Lindsay and Adam B. Lowther -- Terrorism : its goals, targets, and strategies / Craig Stapley -- Measuring the enemy : social support for Islamist terrorism / Gordon L. Bowen -- Terrorism and international law : past, present, and future / John M. Czarnetzky -- Targeting : terrorism and nongovernmental organizations collide / Craig Stapley -- The weapons of mass destruction threat to the United States / Adam B. Lowther -- Purifying the heart : suicide ... or Jihadi acts / Russ Rodgers -- A social psychological perspective on terrorist behavior / Daniel B. Kennedy and Robert J. Homant -- Democracy, terrorism, and university engagement / Beverly Lindsay -- Multidisciplinary perspectives and policy research on terrorism : creating authentic solutions or lingering intellectual debates? / Beverly Lindsay.
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Despite the growth of interest in the study of terrorism since 9/11, terrorism analysts rarely take a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. This leaves a number of terrorism's characteristics to be explored in new and unique ways. Terrorism's Unanswered Questions brings together scholars from the fields of criminology, international relations, law, political science, security studies, and sociology to answer several important questions where consensus has yet to be reached. Each chapter offers a new approach to the question asked that is both unique and challenges popular thought. The res.
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Terrorism.
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World politics-- 21st century.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom Security-- Terrorism.
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Terrorism.
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World politics.
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363.325
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HV6431.T45695 2009eb
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Lindsay, Beverly.
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Lowther, Adam.
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