Serenade of Suffering: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1968-1993Lexington Books, 1999 - 265 páginas In this book, Richard Chasdi brings an impressive degree of scientific rigor and statistical analysis to bear on the topic of terrorist violence in the contemporary Middle East. He has constructed an original and highly useful typology of terrorist groups that takes into consideration three main factors: ideology, goals, and recruitment patterns. With the assistance of this functional typology, Chasdi argues that many patterns of terrorism have predictive value, thereby allowing for preventive measures to be taken on both the local and international levels. Yet, Serenade of Suffering is more than just a tool for anti-terrorist professionals. It is also an insightful and complex portrait of modern terrorism in general: its root causes, the key differences between state-sponsored and nonstate terrorist organizations, and the questionable wisdom of trying to distinguish between "good" and "bad" types of terrorism. A must-read for area specialists, students of conflict studies, and international development professionals. |
Contenido
Introduction | |
Definitions Politics and Terrorism Typologies | 17 |
Explanatory Variables for Terrorist Group Behavior and the Role of Prevailing Ideology | 61 |
Explanations for Terrorist Group Formation and Evolution | 81 |
Middle East Terrorism 19681993 An Empirical Analysis of Terrorist GroupType Behavior | 135 |
Conclusions | 205 |
Bibliography | 219 |
Subject Index | 251 |
261 | |
About the Author | 265 |
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Serenade of Suffering: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1968-1993 Richard J. Chasdi Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
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Abu Nidal Abu Nidal Organization activity al-Fatah Alexander and Sinai analysis Arab Beres charismatic leader Chasdi civilian targets Cobban counter-terrorism D'Amato definition of terrorism Dynamics of Middle East terrorist groups ethnocentric example explanatory variables Falk Fatah Flemming Functional Typology fundamentalist terrorist groups goal government targets GTYPE Hamas Hezbollah Ibid interconnections international law Israel Israeli Jerusalem Post Jewish Defense League Kach Kahane Liberation of Palestine Louis Rene Beres Marxist-Leninist Melman Merari Mickolus Middle East terrorism Middle East terrorist Musa al-Sadr Muslim Brotherhood Occupied Territories PFLP political context political events presuppose and derive property damage Purdue University Reiss and Roth Relative Frequency religious Roth's seems significant social Sprinzak suggests target selection Target Type tells terrorist acts terrorist assaults terrorist attacks terrorist group behavior terrorist group recruiting Terrorist Group-Types terrorist incidents terrorist organizations theocentric charismatic groups theocentric groups thereby in effect Total types of terrorist typology Typology of Terrorist violence Weston