Making Sense of Suicide Missions
| Author/creator | Gambetta, Diego, 1952- Editor |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
| Description | 388 p. ill 06.100 x 09.300 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation "Suicide attacks have become the defining act of political violence of our age. This book is the first to shed real light on these extraordinary acts, and provide answers to the questions we all ask: Are these actions of aggressive religious zealots and unbridled, irrational radicals, or is there a logic driving those behind them? Are their motivations religious or has Islam provided a language to express essentially political causes? How can the perpetrators remain so lucidly effective in the face of certain death? And do these disparate attacks have something like a common cause?" "For nearly three years, this team of internationally distinguished scholars has pursued an unprejudiced inquiry, investigating organizers and perpetrators alike of this extraordinary phenomenon. Close comparisons between a whole range of cases raise challenging further questions: If suicide missions are so effective, why are they not more common? If killing is what matters, why not stick to 'ordinary' violent means? Or, if dying is what matters, why kill in the process?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004025887 |
| ISBN | 9780199276998 |
| ISBN | 0199276994 (Trade Cloth) On Demand |
| Standard identifier# | 9780199276998 |
| Stock number | 00020142 |