How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns

Cronin, Audrey Kurth

ISBN 10: 069115239X / ISBN 13: 9780691152394

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2011

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Amid the fear following 9/11 and other recent terror attacks, it is easy to forget the most important fact about terrorist campaigns: they always come to an end - and often far more quickly than expected. Contrary to what many assume, when it comes to dealing with terrorism it may be more important to understand how it ends than how it begins. Only by understanding the common ways in which terrorist movements have died out or been eradicated in the past can we hope to figure out how to speed the decline of today's terrorist groups, while avoiding unnecessary fears and costly overreactions. In How Terrorism Ends, Audrey Kurth Cronin examines how terrorist campaigns have met their demise over the past two centuries, and applies these enduring lessons to outline a new strategy against al-Qaeda. This book answers questions such as: How long do terrorist campaigns last? When does targeting the leadership finish a group? When do negotiations lead to the end? Under what conditions do groups transition to other forms of violence, such as insurgency or civil war? How and when do they succeed or fail, and then disappear?

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Audrey Kurth Cronin is the Trustees Professor of Security and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology. She is the author of Ending Terrorism: Lessons for Defeating al-Qaeda and the coauthor of Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy.

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Titel: How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the ...
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good