Root causes of suicide terrorism
Subtitle: globalization of martyrdom
By: edited by Ami Pedahzur.
Contributors: Pedahzur, Ami.
Series: Political violence
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Suicide bombings; Terrorism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Characteristics of suicide attacks / Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger; title: Defining suicide terrorism / Assaf Moghadam; title: Dying to kill : motivations for suicide terrorism / Mia Bloom; title: Dying to be martyrs : the symbolic dimension of suicide terrorism / Mohammed M. Hafez; title: The roots of suicide terrorism : a multi-causal approach / Assaf Moghadam; title: Suicide terrorism for secular causes / Leonard Weinberg; title: Islam and Al Qaeda / Marc Sageman; title: Al-Qaeda and the global epidemic of suicide attacks / Yoram Schweitzer; title: Being Bin Laden : an applied decision analysis procedure for analyzing and predicting terrorists decisions / Alex Mintz, J. Tyson Chatagnier, David J. Brul; title: Maghreb immigrants becoming suicide terrorists : a case study on religious radicalization processes in Spain / Rogelio Alonso and Fernando Reinares.