What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Terrorist Threat - Brossura

Richardson, Louise

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ISBN 10: 0719563062 ISBN 13: 9780719563065

Casa editrice: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

What can terrorists possibly hope to achieve by blowing up commuters, bond traders and tourists whom they have never even met? Why do seemingly ordinary young men and women volunteer to turn themselves into human bombs? What can we do to stop them? In What Terrorists Want" Louise Richardson investigates these crucial questions. She delves into the minds of terrorists and demystifies the threat we face today. She draws on her unique contact with real terrorists as well as years of teaching and research at Harvard to show that terrorists are not crazed criminals butrational peoplewilling to exploit their own weaknesses to maximum effect. By introducing us to other terrorists in other times she shows thatwe must look beyond 9/11 and simplistic associations with Islam. What Terrorists Want controversially but convincingly argues that only by understanding the forces that drive terrorism can we hope to contain it. It also shows us why the Global War on Terror is doomed to fail but how with a different strategy we can prevail.

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Recensione

'Louise Richardson is a world authority on global terrorism. Here she brings her unique insights into the motivations of terrorists across the world into a passionate, incisive and groundbreaking argument that provocatively overturns the myths surrounding terrorism.' (Mary Robinson)

'Refreshingly clear' (Metro)

'Simply the best thing of its kind available now in this highly crowded area' (Evening Standard: Robert Fox)

'Rigorous, lucid and highly readable' (Bookseller)

'Richardson sweeps aside conventional and woolly notions of terrorism' (Financial Times)

'A thoughtful and stimulating study of the greatest security problem facing the world today' (Deagl?n de Br?ad?n, Irish Times)

'[Richardson's] book is calm, elegantly written and superbly researched. ... Possibly the most intelligent and readable contemporary one-volume account available' (Steven Poole, Guardian)

L'autore

Irish-born Louise Richardson is one of the world's experts on international security and terrorism. She is Dean of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. In addition to her research and teaching she gives lectures to audiences as diverse as corporate executives, the US senate and, most recently, the international conference held in Madrid to mark the first anniversary of the bombing there.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0719563062
• ISBN 13: 9780719563065
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile