Exploring Terrorist Targeting Preferences

• Autor principal: Libicki, Martin C. (auth)
• Otros Autores: Chalk, Peter (auth), Sisson, Melanie W. (auth), Sisson, Melanie (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: RAND Corporation 2007
• Materias: International relations; Terrorism, armed struggle; Political Science
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Governments spend billions to protect against terrorism. Might it help to understand what al Qaeda would achieve with each specific attack? This book examines various hypotheses of terrorist targeting: is it (1) to coerce, (2) to damage economies, (3) to rally the faithful, or (4) a decision left to...