Global Alert: The Rationality of Modern Islamist Terrorism and the Challenge to the Liberal Democratic World
Online ISBN:
9780231538916
Print ISBN:
9780231172127
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Book
Global Alert: The Rationality of Modern Islamist Terrorism and the Challenge to the Liberal Democratic World
Published:
5 May 2015
Online ISBN:
9780231538916
Print ISBN:
9780231172127
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Cite
Ganor, Boaz, Global Alert: The Rationality of Modern Islamist Terrorism and the Challenge to the Liberal Democratic World (New York, NY , 2015; online edn, Columbia Scholarship Online, 19 Nov. 2015), https://doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231172127.001.0001, accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
This book describes the motivations that lead to modern Islamist terrorism and the different stages in the execution of a terrorist attack. Challenging the certainty that liberal democratic values offer an antidote to radicalism, the book exposes the exploitation of democratic institutions by terrorists to further their goals and confronts the difficulty democracies face in fighting terrorism, especially when international humanitarian law does not account for nonstate actors in armed conflict. The text especially focuses on the “hybrid terrorist organization” model, which calls for a new international doctrine to neutralize its threat.
Contents
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Front Matter
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1
Introduction to Multidimensional Warfare: Defining Terrorism, Redefining War
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2
The Challenges and Dilemmas Faced by Liberal Democracies Coping with Modern Islamist Terrorism
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3
The Proportionality Dilemma in Countering Terrorism
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4
State Involvement in Terrorism
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5
The Hybrid Terrorist Organization
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Is Liberal Democracy the Solution to Terrorism—or is it Part of the Problem?
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The Rationale of Modern Islamist Terrorism
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The Practical Aspects of an Islamist Terrorist Organization’s Rationale
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Understanding the Rationale behind Different Types of Terrorist Attacks
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10
The Rationale of the Modern Islamist Terrorist Organization: Hamas as a Case Study
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End Matter
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