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Dying to Kill
The Allure of Suicide Terror
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Artikel-Nr:
9780231133210
Veröffentl:
2007
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.06.2007
Seiten:
280
Autor:
Mia Bloom
Gewicht:
381 g
Format:
226x154x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Mia Bloom is an assistant professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia in Athens. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and member of the Council of World Affairs. She has published numerous articles on war, terrorism, and ethnic conflict, and her research investigates atrocities across several regions, contrasting the Middle East with South Asia, Europe, and Africa. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Crail, Scotland.
What motivates suicide bombers in Iraq and around the world? Can winning the hearts and minds of local populations stop them? Will the phenomenon spread to the United States? These vital questions are at the heart of this important book. Mia Bloom examines the use, strategies, successes, and failures of suicide bombing in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe and assesses the effectiveness of government responses. She argues that in many instances the efforts of Israel, Russia, and the United States in Iraq have failed to deter terrorism and suicide bombings. Bloom also considers how terrorist groups learn from one another, how they respond to counterterror tactics, the financing of terrorism, and the role of suicide attacks against the backdrop of larger ethnic and political conflicts.
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsChapter 1. Introduction: The Historical Antecedents of TerrorChapter 2. Palestinian Suicide Bombing: Public Support, Market Share and OutbiddingChapter 3. Ethnic Conflict, State Terror and Suicide Bombing in Sri LankaChapter 4.Devising a Theory of Suicide TerrorChapter 5. Halting Suicide Terror from Within: the PKK in TurkeyChapter 6. Terror 101: Transnational Contagion Effects of Suicide BombingChapter 7. Feminism, Rape and War: Engendering Suicide Terror?Chapter 8. Conclusions and Prospects for the Future: Will Iraq Cause Suicide Terror at Home?AppendixNotesIndex