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Global Alert : The Rationality of Modern Islamist Terrorism and the Challenge to the Liberal Democratic World / Boaz Ganor.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular WarfarePublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 8 illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231172127
  • 9780231538916
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV6433.I74 G36 2015
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. INTRODUCTION TO MULTIDIMENSIONAL WARFARE -- 2. THE CHALLENGES AND DILEMMAS FACED BY LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES COPING WITH MODERN ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- 3. THE PROPORTIONALITY DILEMMA IN COUNTERING TERRORISM -- 4. STATE INVOLVEMENT IN TERRORISM -- 5. THE HYBRID TERRORIST ORGANIZATION -- 6. IS LIBERAL DEMOCRACY THE SOLUTION TO TERRORISM-OR IS IT PART OF THE PROBLEM? -- 7. THE RATIONALE OF MODERN ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- 8. THE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION'S RATIONALE -- 9. UNDERSTANDING THE RATIONALE BEHIND DIFFERENT TYPES OF TERRORIST ATTACKS -- 10. THE RATIONALE OF THE MODERN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION: -- 11. CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Many associate terrorism with irrational behavior and believe only lunatics could perpetuate such horrific acts. Global Alert debunks this myth by anatomizing the rationale behind modern terrorism. It draws a distinct picture of its root and instrumental causes and plots the different stages of a terrorist attack, from indoctrination and recruitment to planning, preparation, and launch.Global Alert also exposes the measured exploitation of democratic institutions by terrorists to further their goals. Despite its strong capabilities and extensive resources, the modern liberal-democratic state is nevertheless subject to the rules of war, which partially restrict the state's ability to operate and maneuver. Boaz Ganor shows how terrorist organizations exploit these values to paralyze or neutralize the states they oppose. In outlining this new "hybrid" terrorist organization and its activity in both the military-terrorist arena and the political-welfare arena, Ganor advances an international doctrine for governing military operations between state and nonstate actors as part of a new type of armed conflict termed "multidimensional warfare."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. INTRODUCTION TO MULTIDIMENSIONAL WARFARE -- 2. THE CHALLENGES AND DILEMMAS FACED BY LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES COPING WITH MODERN ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- 3. THE PROPORTIONALITY DILEMMA IN COUNTERING TERRORISM -- 4. STATE INVOLVEMENT IN TERRORISM -- 5. THE HYBRID TERRORIST ORGANIZATION -- 6. IS LIBERAL DEMOCRACY THE SOLUTION TO TERRORISM-OR IS IT PART OF THE PROBLEM? -- 7. THE RATIONALE OF MODERN ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- 8. THE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION'S RATIONALE -- 9. UNDERSTANDING THE RATIONALE BEHIND DIFFERENT TYPES OF TERRORIST ATTACKS -- 10. THE RATIONALE OF THE MODERN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION: -- 11. CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Many associate terrorism with irrational behavior and believe only lunatics could perpetuate such horrific acts. Global Alert debunks this myth by anatomizing the rationale behind modern terrorism. It draws a distinct picture of its root and instrumental causes and plots the different stages of a terrorist attack, from indoctrination and recruitment to planning, preparation, and launch.Global Alert also exposes the measured exploitation of democratic institutions by terrorists to further their goals. Despite its strong capabilities and extensive resources, the modern liberal-democratic state is nevertheless subject to the rules of war, which partially restrict the state's ability to operate and maneuver. Boaz Ganor shows how terrorist organizations exploit these values to paralyze or neutralize the states they oppose. In outlining this new "hybrid" terrorist organization and its activity in both the military-terrorist arena and the political-welfare arena, Ganor advances an international doctrine for governing military operations between state and nonstate actors as part of a new type of armed conflict termed "multidimensional warfare."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)