Counterterrorism : Reassessing the Policy Response

✍ Scribed by Gomis, Benoît

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Counterterrorism: Reassessing the Policy Response promotes a more nuanced understanding of the effectiveness of current counterterrorism practices and the need for reform. It challenges government, media, and academic accounts that exaggerate terrorist threats, particularly in comparison to other threats such as organized crime. Author Benoît Gomis responds to the problem of overreaction with guidelines that address terrorism as a problem to be managed rather than as an existential threat that can be eradicated. He proposes a more realistic assessment of the threat from terrorism, domestic or. Read more...

Abstract: Counterterrorism: Reassessing the Policy Response promotes a more nuanced understanding of the effectiveness of current counterterrorism practices and the need for reform. It challenges government, media, and academic accounts that exaggerate terrorist threats, particularly in comparison to other threats such as organized crime. Author Benoît Gomis responds to the problem of overreaction with guidelines that address terrorism as a problem to be managed rather than as an existential threat that can be eradicated. He proposes a more realistic assessment of the threat from terrorism, domestic or

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Author
Introduction
Chapter 1: Definitional Issues
Chapter 2: Why Does Terrorism Matter?
Chapter 3: A Multifaceted Problem
Chapter 4: Overestimated Threat
Chapter 5: Negative Consequences of Overreaction
Chapter 6: Challenging Counterterrorism Policies
Chapter 7: Toward a More Measured and Comprehensive Policy Response
Conclusion
List of Acronyms
Back Cover

✦ Subjects

Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy.