Global Alert

Informationen zum Autor Boaz Ganor is the founder and executive director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)! Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism! and dean of the Lauder School of Government! Diplomacy! and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)! Herzliya. Klappentext Global Alert 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. Global Alert especially focuses on the "hybrid terrorist organization" model! which calls for a new international doctrine to neutralize its threat. Zusammenfassung Describes the motivations that lead to modern Islamist terrorism and the different stages in the execution of a terrorist attack.

Product details

• Authors: Boaz Ganor, Ganor Boaz
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2015
• EAN: 9780231172127
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17212-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 238 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare; Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Bezug zum Islam und islamischen Gruppen, Terrorismus, bewaffneter Kampf, Religiöse und theokratische Ideologien, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Politics & government, Terrorism, armed struggle, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities