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Responding to terrorism
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Robert Imre |
Terrorism and political violence as a field is growing and expanding. This volume, however, provides a cross-disciplinary analysis - political, philosophical and legal - in a single text and will app… |
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Courting Disaster
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Marc A Thiessen |
White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen was locked in a secure room and given access to the most sensitive intelligence when he was tasked to write President George W. Bush's 2006 speech explaining th… |
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Major Farran's hat
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David Cesarani |
Explores why Britain lost Palestine, linking its counterinsurgency and diplomatic strategies through the role of Roy Farran, commander of British counterterrorism squads, to the abduction of a Jewish… |
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Your government failed you
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Richard A. Clarke |
The bestselling author of "Against All Enemies" now looks at why national security failures have continued and how America and the world can succeed against violent Islamist extremists. |
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The politics of prisoner abuse
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David P. Forsythe |
"When states are threatened by war and terrorism, can we really expect them to abide by human rights and humanitarian law? David Forsythe's bold analysis of US policies towards terror suspects after … |
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History, memory, and state-sponsored violence
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Berber Bevernage |
"Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something "absent" or "distant." Victims of historical injustice, however, in contra… |
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America responds to terrorism
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Karen A. Feste |
"What policy is best for the United States to reduce the threat of Islamic extremist terrorism? Recent American presidents have applied alternative conflict resolution approaches. Clinton practiced c… |
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Terrorism and national security reform
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Jordan Tama |
"Terrorism and National Security Reform demonstrates that blue-ribbon commissions can be powerful vehicles for policy change, overturning the conventional wisdom that views them only as devices for p… |
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Evidence-based counterterrorism policy
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Leslie W. Kennedy,Cynthia M. Lum |
"Since the 9/11 terror attacks, the development and implementation of counterterrorism strategies has been a top priority in national security policies in many countries. Yet as the number and scope … |
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See something, say nothing
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Philip Haney |
When the Department of Homeland Security was founded in 2003 its stated purpose was "preventing terrorist attacks within the United States and reducing America's vulnerability to terrorism." The Bush… |
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Critical infrastructure protection in homeland security
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T. G. Lewis |
A scientific approach to the new field of critical infrastructure protection This book offers a unique scientific approach to the new field of critical infrastructure protection: it uses network… |
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Terror and consent
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Philip Bobbitt |
Philip Bobbitt follows his magisterial Shield of Achilles with an equally provocative analysis of the West's struggle against terror. Boldly stating that the primary driver of terrorism is not Islam … |
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The Commission
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Philip Shenon |
In a work of history that will make headlines, New York Times reporter Philip Shenon investigates the investigation of 9/11 and tells the inside story of most important federal commission since the t… |
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Counterterrorism Legislation in Sri Lanka
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N. Manoharan |
This study investigates the efficacy of counterterrorism laws in democracies by taking the highly pertinent case of Sri Lanka as an example. It compares the use of counterterrorism laws by the Sri La… |
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