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Dying To Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
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Pape as discussed by the authors examines the misperceptions about and motivations behind suicide terrorism in his book, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, and uses empirical data and a multidisciplinary approach to support his argument that suicide terrorism is used to meet the secular and strategic goal of compelling the withdrawal of military forces.Abstract:
Robert Pape thoroughly examines the misperceptions about and motivations behind suicide terrorism in his book, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. He uses empirical data and a multidisciplinary approach to support his argument that suicide terrorism is used to meet the secular and strategic goal of compelling the withdrawal of military forces.read more
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology
TL;DR: The suicide is one of the least understandable of human behaviours as discussed by the authors, and suicide makes an immense contribution to our understanding to what must surely be the most understandable of acts in human life.
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Understanding Terror Networks
TL;DR: The origins of the Jihad, the Mujahedin, and social networks and the Jihad: Names of Terrorists Glossary of Foreign-Language Terms are reviewed.
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The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected suicide terrorist attacks worldwide from 1980 to 2001, 188 in all, and showed that suicide terrorism follows a strategic logic, one specifically designed to coerce modern liberal democracies to make significant territorial concessions.
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