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Author Smelser, Neil J.

Title The faces of terrorism : social and psychological dimensions / Neil J. Smelser.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  303.625 Sm34f 2007    ---  Available
Description vi, 285 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Science essentials
Science essentials (Princeton, N.J.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.
Contents The paradoxes of terrorism -- Conditions and causes of terrorism -- Ideological bases of terrorist behavior -- Motivation, social origins, recruitment, groups, audiences, and the media in the terrorism process -- Anticipating, experiencing, and responding to terrorist attacks -- Discouraging terrorism -- The long-term international context of terrorism -- Appendix: The infernal problems of definition and designation.
Subject Terrorism.
Terrorism -- Social aspects.
Terrorism -- Psychological aspects.
ISBN 0691133085 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691133089 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000041267923
NZ1 11241015
NLGGC 30373261X

 
    
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