Tangled Roots: Social and Psychological Factors in the Genesis of TerrorismJeffrey Ivan Victoroff What do we really know about the contributing causes of terrorism? Are all forms of terrorism created equal, or are there important differences in terrorisms that one must know about to customize effective counter-strategies? Does poverty cause terrorism? This book talks about the basic human ingredients that combust to produce violent extremism. |
Contents
Managing Terror The Devilish Traverse from a Theory to a Plan | 1 |
What Do We Know and What Can We Know About the Causes | 21 |
Going Beyond Theories | 37 |
Have Motivations for Terrorism Changed? | 51 |
Syndrome Versus Tool Perspectives | 61 |
Old Assumptions New Assertions | 74 |
An Existential Psychological Perspective | 85 |
Identifying CrossNational Global Terrorist Hot Spots | 98 |
Policy Issues | 235 |
The Empirical Study of the Terrorist Threat | 242 |
Evidence of Links | 259 |
Understanding Suicide Terrorism | 277 |
Mechanisms of Moral | 292 |
The Palestinian Human Bombers | 308 |
What Should We Do? Psychologically Informed Approaches | 355 |
An Epidemiologic Approach | 399 |
An Evaluation | 115 |
A Comparative Analysis of the Social | 133 |
Terrorists and the Societies from Which They Come | 147 |
Who Supports Terrorism? Evidence from Fourteen | 162 |
Lessons | 203 |
Possible Interaction Between Social | 227 |
Interventions | 431 |
Minority Report from Working Group 3 Perspectives Comments | 445 |
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