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Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It (Chicago Series on International and Dome) - Softcover

Pape, Robert A.; Feldman, James K.

 
9780226645650: Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It (Chicago Series on International and Dome)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226645657 ISBN 13: 9780226645650
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2012

Synopsis

Cutting the Fuse offers a wealth of new knowledge about the origins of suicide terrorism and strategies to stop it. Robert A. Pape and James K. Feldman have examined every suicide terrorist attack worldwide from 1980 to 2009, and the insights they have gleaned from that data fundamentally challenge how we understand the root causes of terrorist campaigns today—and reveal why the War on Terror has been ultimately counterproductive. Through a close analysis of suicide campaigns by Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Israel, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka, the authors provide powerful new evidence that, contrary to popular and dangerously mistaken belief, only a tiny minority of these attacks are motivated solely by religion. Instead, the root cause is foreign military occupation, which triggers secular and religious people alike to carry out suicide attacks.

Cutting the Fuse calls for new, effective solutions that America and its allies can sustain for decades, relying less on ground troops in Muslim countries and more on offshore, over-the-horizon military forces along with political and economic strategies that empower local communities to stop terrorists in their midst.

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About the Author

Robert A. Pape is professor of political science at the University of Chicago and the author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism and Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War. James K. Feldman has taught decision analysis and economics at the Air Force Institute of Technology and defense policy analysis at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226645657
ISBN 13 
9780226645650
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
360