But recently there are signs of cracks in the Shia camp too. Many Shia Muslims of Iraq are calling for a normalization with the Sunni world, and a breaking of ties with Iran, which is the main Shia power of the Muslim world. This essay examines the main factors that cause the cracks in the Shia camp. This long essay is the second part of a series.
Over 80 maps are used to explain the energy war between Russia and Turkey, two countries that have been fighting for regional dominance for many centuries.
Today, the main geographical locations of their conflicts are the regions of Central Asia and East Mediterranean Sea. This essay examines in great detail the relations of both Russia and Turkey with the countries of these regions. Heather Coyne Politics Rating: This volume poses and attempts to answer a series of basic, but complex, questions regarding engagement of proscribed armed groups PAGs.
Best of Gary Whitmore! Best Books: Q2 Update! Must-Read Detective Novels! Bibliotherapy: Anxiety and Depression! Best Books on How to Make Money! Great Heist Novels! This Third Edition reflects today's latest trends, including an escalation of suicide bombings, increased terrorist sophistication, the decline in state-sponsored terrorism, terrorist resistance in Iraq, and the evolution of antiterrorism legislation. It also presents new coverage of hardening targets, anti-terrorism technology, and international cooperation.
What is ebook? Then we will dive into religion and terrorism and spend time looking at Islamic terrorism and Jihad. We will examine asymmetric warfare including terrorists' tactics and weapons of choice. We will discuss terrorist financing an explore counterterrorism. Written for the thinking citizen and student alike, this succinct and up-to-date book takes a "grand strategy" approach toward terrorism and uses examples and issues drawn from present-day perpetrators and actors.
Christopher Harmon, a veteran academic of military theory who has also instructed U. Part II examines the varied ways in which the U. The book outlines the various aspects of the U. Next, Harmon sketches the prospects for further action, steering clear of simple partisanship and instead listing recommendations with pros and cons and also including factual stories of how individual citizens have made a difference in the national effort against terrorism.
This concise book will contribute to our understanding of the problems surrounding terrorism and counterterrorism—and the approaches the United States may take to meet them—in the early 21st century. Her compelling analysis and recommendations will make for essential reading as Al-Qaeda evolve and new conflicts emerge in the coming decade. Fifteen years after September 11, the United States still faces terror threats—both domestic and foreign.
After years of wars, ever more intensive and pervasive surveillance, enhanced security measures at major transportation centers, and many attempts to explain who we are fighting and why and how to fight them, the threats continue to multiply. So, too, do our attempts to understand just what terrorism is and how to counter it. Two leaders in the field of terrorism studies, Martha Crenshaw and Gary LaFree, provide a critical look at how we have dealt with the terror threat over the years.
They make clear why it is so difficult to create policy to counter terrorism. The foes are multiple and often amorphous, the study of the field dogged by disagreement on basic definitional and methodological issues, and the creation of policy hobbled by an exacting standard: the counterterrorist must succeed all the time; the terrorist only once.
As Countering Terrorism shows, there are no simple solutions to this threat. It is often said that terrorist groups are relatively conservative in character operating in a technological vacuum — relying almost exclusively on bombs and bullets.
This book examines how and why terrorist groups innovate more generally and al-Qaeda-related terrorist plots in Europe more specifically.
The starting point for this book was twofold. Secondly, this book examines the evolution of specific al-Qaeda-related plots in three specific northern EU states — the United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany - where there has been a significant volume of planned, failed and executed terrorist plots.
In particular, these case studies explore signs of innovation and learning. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and counter-terrorism, political violence, security studies and IR in general.
This work firstly aims to provide balanced and objective insight into the psychology of terrorists; what their motivations are, what keeps them involved in terrorist groups, and what eventually forces most to end their active involvement in terrorism.
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