Author: Martha Crenshaw
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Keywords: counterterrorism, consequences
Number of Pages: 421
Published: 2010-02
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0871540738
ISBN-13: 9780871540737

Author: Amos N. Guiora
Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: counterterrorism, perspectives, global
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-11-06
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 0735568006
ISBN-13: 9780735568006

Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism is a highly engaging text that brings Amos Guiora’s unique expertise and first-hand knowledge of the subject to your classroom. Appropriate for undergraduate, graduate, and law students alike, this book examines the four central aspects of counterterrorism; law, policy, intelligence gathering, and operational decisions. Through the comparison and analysis of five different nations’ treatment of the subject; the United States, Spain, Russia, Israel and India, this book stands above the rest as a comprehensive and insightful study of counterter

Author: Tim Naftali
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: american, counterterrorism, history, secret, spot, blind
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0465092829
ISBN-13: 9780465092826

"Masterful.... Blind Spot is an excellent reminder of the value of unbiased scholarship in an environment of poisonous political partisanship." (The New Republic) In this revelatory new account, national security expert Timothy Naftali relates the full story of America’s decades-long attempt to fight terrorism. On September 11, 2001, a long history of failures and missteps came to a head, with tragic results. But, explains Naftali, it didn’t have to be so. Blind Spot traces the long history of American efforts to thwart terrorism, from World War II to the Munich Games hostage-tak

Author: Stephen Dycus; William C. Banks; Peter Raven-Hanse
Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: series, elective, law, counterterrorism
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2007-07-26
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0735565597
ISBN-13: 9780735565593

Counterterrorism Law is a detailed survey of United States law governing the definition, detection, detention, interrogation, and prosecution of terrorists. Also covered is the availability and legal use of armed force, civil liability, and economic sanctions against terrorism and its state sponsors. A solid fit for an advanced course in National Security Law, Constitutional Law, or Civil Rights, this comprehensive text organizes the rapidly growing body of counterterrorism law into discrete, coherent, and pedagogically efficient segments. This outstanding text offers an abundance of great fea

Author: Ivan Sascha Sheehan
Publisher: Cambria Press
Keywords: transformation, terrorist, activity, terror, war, counterterrorism, clash, terrorism
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2007-12-18
List price: $104.95
ISBN-10: 1934043702
ISBN-13: 9781934043707

Highly readable with a rich quantitative analysis of the largest ever terrorism database constructed for the period 1992-2004, the results of the study are fascinating and have important implications for current U.S. foreign policy in the Global War on Terrorism. The author has painstakingly examined, with precise numbers, the impact of the use of preemptive force in the War on Terrorism in a way that has never been done before. This is the first publication showcasing compelling data on the impact of the current war on terrorism on the level, lethality and frequency of transnational terro

Authors:Graeme C S Steven, Rohan Gunaratna,
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: world, issues, contemporary, handbook, reference, counterterrorism
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 2004-09-14
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1851096663
ISBN-13: 9781851096664

Counter-Terrorism: A Reference Handbook outlines the threat of terrorism and ways to combat it. Written by two expert insiders in the field, this extensive examination surveys a wide range of diverse terrorist groups from the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) to Al Qaeda. It shows how key trends and patterns in domestic and international terrorism such as suicide bombings require counter strategies and tactics including surveillance and reconnaissance.Case studies of terrorist organizations in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Balkans, and the Caucasus, and profiles of terrorists

Author: Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russi
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: russian, workshop, proceedings, responses, improving, reducing, vulnerabilities, terrorism
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0309089719
ISBN-13: 9780309089715