01378nam a2200277Ia 4500 TVU_11191 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0192801686 9780192801685 eng 303.625 Ch475 Townshend, Charles Terrorism a very short introduction Charles Townshend Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2002 157 p. ill. 18 cm This book charts a path through the outpouring of efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, by asking what makes terrorism different from other forms of political, military action; what makes it effective; and what can be done about it. It unravels complex central questions such as whether terrorists are criminals, whether terrorism is a kind of war, what kind of threat terrorism represents, how far media publicity sustains terrorism, and whether democracy is especially vulnerable to terrorist attack. It examines the historical ideological and local roots of terrorist violence, and the success of specific terrorist and anti-terrorist campaigns in the more distant as well as the recent past Terrorism Charles Townshend Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh