Free Download Taming Terrorism. It’s Been Done Before By Anna Reid (ed.)
2005 | 122 Pages | ISBN: 0954752759 | PDF | 2 MB
Taming Terrorism: It’s Been Done Before is the second in a series ofPolicy Exchange publications that seek to draw from past experiencein deciding how best to tackle foreign policy challenges today. Thefirst – Regime Change – looked at state-building efforts abroad, frompost-war Germany to contemporary Afghanistan. Taming Terrorismdoes the same with terrorist movements, from the Boxer Rebellionof 1899-1901 to Japan’s Aum Shinriykõ and Greece’s November 17thin the 1990s. Part of its point is to demonstrate that despite the hypetoday’s struggle is not an unprecedented one, and in fact has muchin common with episodes in the not so distant past. We’ve beatenterrorism before, and we can do it again.As case studies, we picked groups which, like the Islamicradicals, were primarily driven by ideology rather than by concretepolitical demands, and whose aims were so extreme and/oreccentric as to preclude all possibility of rational negotiation.Hence separatists – such as the IRA, ETA and PKK – are excluded, as are single-issue groups such as anti-abortionists and anti-vivsectionists.
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