Comparative responses to international terrorism post 9/11
Subtitle: Western and non-western approaches
By: [edited by] Asaf Siniver.
Contributors: Siniver, Asaf, 1976-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415552301
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001-; Terrorism -- Government policy
Description: This edited volume brings together both western and non-western approaches to counter-terrorism in the post-9/11 era. This multi-cultural study of counter-terrorism strategies identifies common lessons from failed and successful attempts to counter the terrorist threat and provides guidelines for an effective counter-terrorism strategy. The book explores the changing dynamics of terrorism from a range of perspectives - from the global threat posed by home-grown terrorism in North Africa and the larger security dimensions in the Middle East, to the various strategies employed by western and non-western societies in their efforts to develop effective counter-terrorism strategies. Core themes in the book include the divergent dynamics of the phenomena categorised under the 'terrorism' label, and the domestic, national and regional variants of international terrorism. As such, the book offers in-depth analysis of the relationship between the local and the global, both in the root causes of, and responses to, terrorism since 9/11. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence, security studies and IR.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Asaf Siniver; title: Security and "terror" in the Middle East and North Africa : drivers and limitations of protest and "terrorism" / Gerd Nonneman; title: Radicalism, extremism, and government in North Africa / George Joffé; title: Strategic confusion : America's conflicting strategies and the war on terrorism / David Hastings Dunn and Oz Hassan; title: American counter-terrorism through the rewards for justice program, 1984-2008 / Steve Hewitt; title: British armed forces and European Union perspectives on countering terrorism / Major General Graham Messervy-Whiting; title: The development of the UK intelligence community after 9/11 / Sir Francis Richards; title: Israel and the Al-Aqsa Intifada : the conceptzia of terror / Clive Jones; title: Russia and counter terrorism : a critical appraisal / Cerwyn Moore and David Barnard-Wills; title: Fixing the elusive : India and the foreignness of terror / Ted Svensson; title: Australian identity, interventionism, and the "war on terror" / Jack Holland and Matt McDonald; title: Counter-terrorism in Southeast Asia post 9/11 / Andrew T H Tan.