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Title Understanding and influencing public support for insurgency and terrorism / Paul K. Davis [and others].

Imprint Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 232 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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Description data file
Series Rand Corporation monograph series
Rand Corporation monograph series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Drawing on social science and particularly social movement theory, presents and tests empirically a conceptual model of public support for insurgency and terrorism and discusses how it can inform counterinsurgency and counterterrorism strategy.
Contents Introduction -- A conceptual model -- The case of al-Qa'ida -- Public support for the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan -- Public support for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey -- Public support for the Maoists in Nepal -- Comparisons and implications for analysis of strategy -- Appendix: Polling on public support for terrorism in the Islamic world.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed January 25, 2013).
Language English.
Subject Qaida (Organization) -- Public opinion.
Taliban -- Public opinion.
Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê -- Public opinion.
Talibans -- Opinion publique.
Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê
Qaida (Organization)
Taliban
Terrorism -- Public opinion -- Case studies.
Insurgency -- Public opinion -- Case studies.
Nepal -- History -- Civil War, 1996-2006 -- Public opinion.
Terrorisme -- Opinion publique -- Études de cas.
Révoltes -- Opinion publique -- Études de cas.
Népal -- Histoire -- 1996-2006 (Guerre civile) -- Opinion publique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Terrorism.
Public opinion
Terrorism -- Public opinion
Nepal https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqBrkJm4w88cg9k9Qfpfq
Nepali Civil War (Nepal : 1996-2006) (OCoLC)fst01907469 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vB9x3h9xwPgRCJGwKTb
Chronological Term 1996-2006
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Added Author Davis, Paul K., 1943-
Other Form: Print version: Understanding and influencing public support for insurgency and terrorism. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012 9780833058690 (DLC) 2012028228
ISBN 9780833058775 (electronic bk.)
0833058770 (electronic bk.)
9780833058768 (electronic bk.)
0833058762 (electronic bk.)
9780833058690 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
083305869X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780833058782 (prc)
0833058789 (prc)
083305869X
Report No. RAND/MG-1122-OSD
Standard No. AU@ 000049610761
AU@ 000051559954
AU@ 000052913028
DEBBG BV043154604
DEBBG BV044168416
DEBSZ 397382987
DEBSZ 421358246
GBVCP 1008657387
NZ1 14974528

 
    
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