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State responses to terrorism have shaped politics and society globally. But how far, and in what precise ways, has counter-terrorism actually succeeded? This book offers an historically-grounded, systematic, and expert interrogation of the effectiveness of state responses to terrorist violence from one of the world's leading experts on terrorism.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1: The Post-9/11 War on Terror
- 2: Northern Ireland
- 3: Israeli Counter-Terrorism
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
About the author
Richard English is Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice at Queen's University Belfast. His books include the award-winning studies
Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003) and
Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (2006). His most recent books are
Does Terrorism Work? A History (2016),
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism (co-edited, 2019), and
The Cambridge History of Terrorism (edited, 2021). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Honorary Fellow of Keble College Oxford, a Faculty Affiliate at the University of Chicago, and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews. In 2018 he was awarded a CBE for services to the understanding of modern-day terrorism and political history. In 2019 he was awarded the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal in the Social Sciences.
Summary
State responses to terrorism have shaped politics and society globally. But how far, and in what precise ways, has counter-terrorism actually succeeded? This book offers an historically-grounded, systematic, and expert interrogation of the effectiveness of state responses to terrorist violence from one of the world's leading experts on terrorism.
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