Counterterror Offensives for the Ghost War World
The Rudiments of Counterterrorism Policy- Authors:
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- 2010
Summary
In Counterterror Offensives for the Ghost War World: The Rudiments of Counterterrorism Policy, Richard J. Chasdi has written a groundbreaking quantitative analysis that provides new insight into which types of counterterror practices work best and which types perform poorly in particular operational environments and circumstances. For Chasdi, "effectiveness" is defined as the capacity of counterterror practices to work with "stealth"-namely, without eliciting high amounts of related follow-up terrorist assaults. He moves beyond individual country analyses to tackle an analysis of counterterror practice effectiveness based on the type of political system of the country carrying out counterterror offensives and the power level of that country within the international political system. Chasdi furthermore provides essential qualitative descriptions of national security institutions, stakeholders, and processes to frame his quantitative results in ways that tie those findings to historical and contemporary political developments.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2010
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-0794-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4616-3326-6
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 877
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Table of Contents No access
- List of Figures No access
- List of Tables No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Foreword No access
- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Counterterror Concepts and Methods No access Pages 1 - 38
- Chapter 2: The Contours of Counterterror Practices: Approaches and Actions, What Is Known and Gaps in Knowledge, a Functional Typology of Counterterror Events No access Pages 39 - 116
- Chapter 3: Theoretical Conceptualizations and Methodology No access Pages 117 - 176
- Chapter 4: The Case of Counterterror in Western Style Liberal Democracies: Basic Contours of the Counterterror Practices of Four Nation-States No access Pages 177 - 414
- Chapter 5: The Case of Counterterror in Authoritarian Democracies and an Authoritarian Regime: Basic Contours of the Counterterror Practices of Three Nation-States No access Pages 415 - 584
- Chapter 6: Analysis of the Effects of Two Structural Explanatory Factors on Counterterror Event Outcomes No access Pages 585 - 712
- Chapter 7: Conclusions No access Pages 713 - 766
- Methodological Appendices No access Pages 767 - 810
- Bibliography No access Pages 811 - 852
- Author Index No access Pages 853 - 856
- Subject Index No access Pages 857 - 876
- About the Author No access Pages 877 - 877





