This edited book addresses the appropriateness of US and other counter-terrorist (CT) strategies in Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region and in Latin America, with a view to improving their effectiveness.
The book has three main objectives:
- to re-examine terrorists' strategic goals and sources of legitimacy and the nature of their ideological support
- to analyze current US and regional CT strategies and assess their success in de-legitimizing terrorists and undermining their support
- to provide a strategic synthesis and policy recommendations in light of the research findings.
This book will be of interest to students of political violence and terrorism, security studies and international relations in general.
Author(s): Anne Aldis, Graeme Herd
Series: Political Violence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 304
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
SERIES-TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 6
COPYRIGHT......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 11
PREFACE......Page 18
Part I INTRODUCTION......Page 20
1 APPROACHES TO COUNTERING TERRORISM AND CIST......Page 22
2 IDEOLOGY IN TERRORISM AND COUNTER TERRORISM: Lessons from al Qaeda......Page 40
Part II THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST......Page 54
3 SAUDI ARABIA’S CONUNDRUM AND THE AL QAEDA INSURGENCY......Page 56
4 COUNTERING TERRORISM: Hizbullah’s appeal......Page 72
5 COUNTERING ARAB TELEVISION?: Assessing the effect of Alhurra......Page 87
6 ISLAMIC RADICALISM IN KAZAKHSTAN AND KYRGYZSTAN......Page 100
7 COUNTERING IDEOLOGICAL SUPPORT: The case of the Ferghana Valley......Page 115
Part III SOUTHEAST ASIA......Page 130
8 COMBATING AL JAMA’AH AL ISLAMIYYAH IN SOUTHEAST ASIA......Page 132
9 IT’S THE STORY, STUPID: Neutralizing radical Islamism in the southeast Asia theatre......Page 147
10 COUNTER-IDEOLOGICAL WORK: Singapore experience......Page 162
Part IV LATIN AND SOUTH AMERICA......Page 180
11 TERRORISM IN THE SOUTHERN CONE......Page 182
12 CONFRONTING TERRORISM IN LATIN AMERICA: Building cooperation in the Andean Ridge......Page 198
13 COUNTERING IDEOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM IN THE CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN......Page 213
Part V EUROPE AND AFRICA......Page 230
14 COUNTERING ISLAMIST RADICALS IN EASTERN EUROPE......Page 232
15 COUNTERING IDEOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM: A South African case study......Page 247
Part VI CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS......Page 262
16 SYNTHESIZING WORLDWIDE EXPERIENCES IN COUNTERING IDEOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM (CIST)......Page 264
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 272
INDEX......Page 296
