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What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Terrorist Threat | |||
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Terrorist Threat |
Why do seemingly ordinary young men and women volunteer to turn themselves into human bombs?
作者简介 Irish-born Louise Richardson is one of the world`s experts on international security and terrorism. She is Dean of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. In addition to her research and teaching she gives lectures to audiences as diverse as corporate executives, the US senate and, most recently, the international conference held in Madrid to mark the first anniversary of the bombing there.
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'Louise Richardson is a world authority on global terrorism. Here she brings her unique insights into the motivations of terrorists across the world into a passionate, incisive and groundbreaking argument that provocatively overturns the myths surrounding terrorism.' -- Mary Robinson 'Richardson sweeps aside conventional and woolly notions of terrorism.' -- FT Magazine 'Simply the best thing of its kind available now in this highly crowded area' -- Evening Standard: Robert Fox 'Refreshingly clear.' -- Metro 20060605 'A thoughtful and stimulating study of the greatest security problem facing the world today' -- Deaglan de Breadun, Irish Times 20060624 'Rigorous, lucid and highly readable' -- Bookseller 20060624
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'Louise Richardson is a world authority on global terrorism. Here she brings her unique insights into the motivations of terrorists across the world into a passionate, incisive and groundbreaking argument that provocatively overturns the myths surrounding terrorism.'
(Mary Robinson )‘Richardson sweeps aside conventional and woolly notions of terrorism.‘
(FT Magazine )‘Refreshingly clear.’
(Metro )‘A thoughtful and stimulating study of the greatest security problem facing the world today’
(Deaglán de Bréadún, Irish Times )‘Rigorous, lucid and highly readable’
(Bookseller )