Description
Book SynopsisThis text aims to offer fresh insight into the complexities of state-sponsored and nonstate terrorism. It presents a detailed statistical and quantitative analysis of four Middle East terrorist organizations, in Algeria, Turkey, Egypt and Israel.
Trade ReviewThis careful quantitative, events-based analysis provides generous food for thought for scholars and policymakers. -- Michael Stohl, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chasdi. . .[points] to the US's lack of attention to antecedent political and social conditions that lead to terrorist acts. This sound advice is sadly muted in official circles. Scholars, analysts, and strategists should benefit from this book. * CHOICE *
In Tapestry of Terror, Dr. Chasdi has produced one of the most rigorously empirical studies ever published on modern terrorism. . . . Dr. Chasdi's highly ambitious study is an important contribution to the terrorism analytic discipline. -- Dr. Joshua Sinai
Richard Chasdi has already established himself as an important scholar in the field of international terrorism when he published his previous book Serenade of Suffering: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1968-1993. The current volume will enhancenot only his reputation as an insightful scholar in the field but, more importantly, our knowledge of this increasingly important phenomenonnnn -- Ilan Peleg, from the foreword
Richard Chasdi has already established himself as an important scholar in the field of international terrorism when he published his previous book Serenade of Suffering: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1968-1993. The current volume will enhance not only his reputation as an insightful scholar in the field but, more importantly, our knowledge of this increasingly important phenomenon -- Ilan Peleg,
from the foreword
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Methodology and Theoretical Developments Chapter 3 The Case of Algerian Terrorism Chapter 4 The Case of Egyptian Terrorism Chapter 5 The Case of Turkish Terrorism Chapter 6 The Case of Israeli-Palestinian Arab Terrorism Chapter 7 Conclusions
