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Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century by: Philip Bobbitt List Price: £25.00 City Travel Guides Price: £13.03 You Save: £11.97 (48%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 327 EAN: 9780713997842 ISBN: 0713997842 Label: Allen Lane Manufacturer: Allen Lane Number Of Pages: 688 Publication Date: May 29, 2008 Publisher: Allen Lane Studio: Allen Lane Sales Rank: 15551 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Brilliant!This book is a really interesting look at 21st-century terrorism, from its evolution in history to its current aims and capabilities and to future predictions as to how society will live with terrorism in the future. Central to the argument of the book is the paradigm shift that a globalised and decentralised terrorist network represents to 20th-century thinking over state provision of security to its citizens. Where terrorist networks adopt the tools of a globalised world. The Internet as a tool for the dissemination of propaganda, the recruitment of supporters, and creation of a virtual "ummah" (Muslim brotherhood). The franchise model of market capitalism for the outsourcing of terrorist attacks, motivated by disparate grievances and perpetrated ... Read More: |
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