DEMOCRACY AND COUNTERTERRORISM
Lessons from the Past
"This volume, the most systematic and comprehensive study to date, is a valuable set of comparative case studies of democratic responses to terrorism beyond the United States. It demonstrates conclusively that there are useful lessons to be learned about policy effectiveness from the diverse counterterrorism experiences of a wide range of countries." —Martha Crenshaw, Wesleyan University
Combating terrorism is nothing new for democracies. Over the course of decades, a wide range of democratic states has encountered an array of terrorist groups—and, moreover, has often prevailed against them. As this timely and stimulating volume makes clear, the United States can learn much from fellow democracies to help it in its current war against al Qaeda and affiliated groups.
Democracy and Counterterrorism offers unparalleled breadth in its comparative study of the policies, strategies, and instruments employed in the fight against terrorism. The distinguished contributors—some scholars, some practitioners, and all renowned experts—examine no fewer than fourteen cases, featuring thirteen states and sixteen major terrorist groups. Each case study includes a brief overview, a detailed analysis of the policies and techniques that the government employed, and an assessment of which measures proved most effective and instructive. The substantial conclusion draws together common threads from the individual cases and asks what lessons their collective experience can offer to the democracies now battling al Qaeda and the global jihadists. Among the answers sure to interest policymakers as well as academics is that the constraints within which democracies must fight terrorism are actually a source of strength; democratic governments that seek simply to obliterate terrorism by force usually succeed only in making their problems worse.
Louise Richardson is the executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a senior lecturer in government at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard.
Robert J. Art is professor of international relations at Brandeis University and research associate at Harvard University's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and MIT's Security Studies Program.
Browse Inside the Book
Foreword
Introduction
Index
Contents
Introduction - Robert J. Art and Louise Richardson
Italy and The Red Brigades - Leonard Weinberg
Britain and the IRA - Louise Richardson
Spain and ETA - Fernando Reinares and Rogelio Alonso
France and the GIA - Jeremy Shapiro
Venezuela and the FALN-FLN - Peter Calvert
Peru and The Shining Path - David Scott Palmer
Colombia and the FARC - Peter Waldmann
Israel, Hamas, and Fatah - Boaz Ganor
Israel and the Lebanese Hizballah - Daniel Byman
Turkey and the PKK - Henri Barkey
Russia and Chechnya - Audrey Kurth Cronin
India: Kashmir and Khalistan - Paul Wallace
Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - Thomas A. Marks
Japan and the Aum Shinrikyo - John Parachini and Katsuhisa Furukawa
Conclusion - Robert J. Art and Louise Richardson
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