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What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Terrorist Threat

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Terrorist Threat

by Louise Richardson (Author)

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Synopsis

Why do seemingly ordinary young men and women volunteer to turn themselves into human bombs? What can we do to stop them? In What Terrorists Want Louise Richardson investigates these crucial questions. She delves into the minds of terrorists and demystifies the threat we face today. She draws on her unique contact with real terrorists as well as years of teaching and research at Harvard to show that terrorists are not crazed criminals but rational, ideological actors willing to exploit their own weaknesses to maximum effect. By introducing us to other terrorists in other times she shows that an understanding of terrorism today must look way beyond 9/11 and simplistic associations with Islam.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Publisher: John Murray
Published: 23 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 0719563070
ISBN 13: 9780719563072

Media Reviews
'Louise Richardson is a world authority on global terrorism. Here she brings her unique insights into the motivations of terrorists across the world into a passionate, incisive and groundbreaking argument that provocatively overturns the myths surrounding terrorism.' -- Mary Robinson 'Richardson sweeps aside conventional and woolly notions of terrorism.' -- FT Magazine 'Simply the best thing of its kind available now in this highly crowded area' -- Evening Standard: Robert Fox 'Refreshingly clear.' -- Metro 20060605 'A thoughtful and stimulating study of the greatest security problem facing the world today' -- Deaglan de Breadun, Irish Times 20060624 'Rigorous, lucid and highly readable' -- Bookseller 20060624
Author Bio
Irish-born Louise Richardson is one of the world's experts on international security and terrorism. She is Dean of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. In addition to her research and teaching she gives lectures to audiences as diverse as corporate executives, the US senate and, most recently, the international conference held in Madrid to mark the first anniversary of the bombing there.