Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge

Dershowitz, Alan M.

ISBN 10: 0300097662 / ISBN 13: 9780300097665

Published by Yale University Press, 2002

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Type: Book 271pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300097662
• ISBN 13: 9780300097665
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 20 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • MIDDLE EAST

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Synopsis

The greatest danger facing the world today, says Alan M. Dershowitz, comes from religiously inspired, state-sponsored terrorist groups that seek to develop weapons of mass destruction for use against civilian targets. In this analysis, Dershowitz argues passionately and persuasively that global terrorism is a phenomenon largely of our own making and that we must and can take steps to reduce the frequency and severity of terrorist acts. Analyzing acts of terrorism and our reaction to them, Dershowitz explains that terrorism is successful when the international community gives in to the demands of terrorists - or even tries to understand and eliminate the "root causes" of terrorism. He discusses extreme approaches to wiping out international terrorism that would work if we were not constrained by legal, moral and humanitarian considerations. Then, given that we do operate under such constraints, he offers a series of proposals that would effectively reduce the frequency and severity of international terrorism by striking a balance between security and liberty.

About the Author

Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of law at Harvard Law School and America's most renowned criminal defense and civil liberties attorney, is the best-selling author of Supreme Injustice, Chutzpah, Reversal of Fortune, Reasonable Doubts, and many other books.