This scholarly and in-depth report on the Al Qaeda network is by a terrorism/counter-terrorism expert who spent five years researching its leadership, structure, and methods. Gunaratna provides a history of the Al Qaeda in the Middle East and elsewhere, and an analysis of its infiltration in the West. He weighs the prospects for uncovering Al ...
Long before the devastating events of 11th September 2001 many countries had developed ways to deal with terrorists, but for the most part these groups were regarded as only domestic threats. The actions of the 'Atta Group' on 9/11, however, not only destroyed the World Trade Centre but also blew away forever these attitudes of complacency. The ...
An analysis of the wave of terrorism in the post-Cold War era, this book looks at the ways in which states and societies are responding. It features a chronology of key events and biographies of significant individuals such as Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.
Combating Terrorism brings together leading international experts from across the globe to assess the successes and failures of managing the terrorist threat. The post 9/11 trajectory of Al Qaeda has demonstrated that contemporary terrorist groups can only be defeated by adopting both military and non-military strategies. A multi-pronged, multi ...
The face of terrorism dramatically changed during the past decade. Instead of resisting globalisation, terrorist groups are harnessing the post-Cold War environment advancing their aims and objectives. Benefiting from the widespread availability of communication technologies, inexpensive travel, porous borders, privation of security and access to ...
Unlike the Cold War era, regional conflicts today have profound international implications. Enhanced communication - flow of ideas, inexpensive travel, greater mobility of people, unregulated flow of finance, and a saturated arms market - have dramatically increased the globalisation of violence. With internal displacement and refugee flows, most ...
In the era of terrorism, no foe as deadly as Al Qae'da - a multi-dimensional, multi-national group of great expertise and resourcefulness - has emerged to threaten and indeed harm the international community with such impunity. With a membership drawn from three-dozen Middle Eastern, Asian and other nationalities, and with cells established in ...
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: South Asian Network on Conflict Research
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9789558093009ISBN:9558093009
Description: Good/No Jacket. 9558093009 Used Cover has wear of edges and corners and minor creasing. Page block is a bit grabby. Minor wear of corners of early pages. Minor pen scribles on FEP. Pages are clean and bright throughout. Illustrated with colour and b/w plates from photographs. read more
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