This team of international experts analyses the possibilities and limitations of preventing or reducing terrorism by addressing the factors that give rise to it and sustain it. The key questions raised include:
• what are the main circumstances that provide preconditions for the emergence of various types of terrorism?
• what are the typical precipitants that trigger terrorist campaigns?
• to what extent is it possible to reduce the problem of terrorism by influencing these causes and circumstances?
• should we address those factors that sustain terrorist campaigns rather than root causes?
Author(s): Tore Bjørgo
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2005
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 288
Tags: Terrorism
Book Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Exploring roots of terrorism
3 Impoverished terrorists
4 The social and psychological characteristics of terrorism and terrorists
5 The socio-cultural underpinnings of terrorist psychology
6 Social, organizational and psychological factors in suicide terrorism
7 Palestinian resistance and ‘suicide bombing’
8 Roots of terrorism in the Middle East
9 Nationalist separatism and terrorism in comparative perspective
10 Root causes of terrorism?
11 Right-wing terrorism
12 Social-revolutionary terrorism in Latin America and Europe
13 The use of terrorism by organized crime
14 Patterns of state failure
15 State sponsorship–a root cause of terrorism?
16 Expected utility and state terrorism
17 A conceptual framework for resolving terrorism’s root causes
18 Prevention of terrorism
19 Fire of Iolaus
20 Conclusions
Index
