The End of Terrorism?

by Weinberg; Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780415781183
• ISBN10: 0415781183
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-09-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end. Virtually all the groups that employed terrorist violence during the 1960s and 1970s have passed from the scene in one way or another. Likewise most of the individuals who embarked on 'careers' in terrorism over these same years now engage in other pursuits.The author argues that al-Qaida and the various violent Islamist groups it has inspired are, like their predecessors, bound to bring their operations to an end. Rather than discussing the defection or de-radicalization of individuals the book aims to analyze how terrorist groups end. It examines the historical record and analyzes in some detail the various ends of these violent organizations. Much of the analysis is based on a massive data collection on terrorism compiled by researchers at the national security studies center at the University of Haifa.As a result, the book provides a unique empirically informed perspective on the end of terrorism that is a valuable addition to the currently available in the literature on the subject.