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Informationen zum Autor Ami Pedahzur holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Haifa where! from 2000 to 2004! he served as a senior fellow at the National Security Studies Center. In 2004 he was a Donald D. Harrington fellow at the University of Texas! and in 2005 became an associate professor in the departments of Government and Middle Eastern Studies. In 2007 Pedahzur joined The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and currently serves as associate editor of the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. His books include Suicide Terrorism and The Israeli Response to Jewish Extremism and Violence: Defending Democracy. Klappentext An expert on terror and political extremism! Ami Pedahzur argues that Israel's strict reliance on the elite units of the intelligence community is fundamentally flawed. A unique synthesis of memoir! academic research! and information gathered from print and online sources! Pedahzur's complex study explores this issue through Israel's past encounters with terrorists! specifically hostage rescue missions! the first and second wars in Lebanon! the challenges of the West Bank and Gaza! Palestinian terrorist groups! and Hezbollah. He brings a rare transparency to Israel's counterterrorist activities! highlighting their successes and failures and the factors that have contributed to these results. From the foundations of this analysis! Pedahzur ultimately builds a strategy for future confrontation that will be relevant not only to Israel but also to other countries that have adopted Israel's intelligence-based model. Zusammenfassung While Mossad is known as one of the world's most successful terrorist-fighting organizations! the state of Israel has! more than once and on many levels! risked the lives of its agents and soldiers through unwise intelligence-based intervention. An expert on terror and political extremism! Ami Pedahzur argues that Israel's strict reliance on the elite units of its intelligence community is fundamentally flawed. A unique synthesis of memoir! academic research! and information gathered from print and online sources! Pedahzur's complex study explores this issue through Israel's past encounters with terrorists! specifically! hostage rescue missions! the first and second wars in Lebanon! the challenges of the West Bank and Gaza! Palestinian terrorist groups! and Hezbollah. He brings a rare transparency to Israel's counterterrorist activities! highlighting their successes and failures and the factors that have contributed to these results. From the foundations of this analysis! Pedahzur ultimately builds a strategy for future confrontation that has relevance not only for Israel but also for other countries that have adopted Israel's intelligence-based model. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresAcknowledgments 1. The Emergence of Israel's Counterterrorism Doctrine2. The Path to the Defensive Model and Back3. Rescuing Hostages4. The Lebanese Puzzle5. New Challenges from the West Bank and Gaza6. The Global Challenge of Iran and Hezbollah7. New Rivals! Old Responses8. A War Against an Elusive Enemy9. The Second Lebanon War and Beyond10. Fighting the Terrorism Plague NotesGlossaryIndex ...
