Global Alert. The Rationality Of Modern Islamist Terrorism And The Challenge To The Liberal Democratic World

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 218 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Many associate terrorism with irrational behavior and believe only lunatics could perpetuate such horrific acts. Global Alert debunks this myth by anatomizing the rationale behind modern terrorism. It draws a distinct picture of its root and instrumental causes and plots the different stages of a terrorist attack, from indoctrination and recruitment to planning, preparation, and launch.Global Alert also exposes the measured exploitation of democratic institutions by terrorists to further their goals. Despite its strong capabilities and extensive resources, the modern liberal-democratic state is nevertheless subject to the rules of war, which partially restrict the states ability to operate and maneuver. Boaz Ganor shows how terrorist organizations exploit these values to paralyze or neutralize the states they oppose. In outlining this new "hybrid" terrorist organization and its activity in both the military-terrorist arena and the political-welfare arena, Ganor advances an international doctrine for governing military operations between state and nonstate actors as part of a new type of armed conflict termed "multidimensional warfare."

ISBN: 9780231172127