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Effectively Countering Terrorism
The Challenges of Prevention, Preparedness and Response
| Cornelia Beyer and Michael Bauer |
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Cornelia
Beyer is Lecturer in security studies
at the University
of Hull. She was previously a Teaching and Research Fellow
at the Universities of Landau and Tuebingen in Germany.
Her main interests are terrorism and the effects of counterterrorism
policies; power and the role of the United States in
global (hegemonic) governance; and international relations
theory. She combines theoretical analysis with empirical
research focused on the Middle East, the European Union,
and ASEAN. In addition, she is working on an authorized
biography of Prof. Kenneth Waltz. Her major publications
include: Die Strategie der Vereinigten Staaten im ’War
of Terror’, Muenchen, 2006); Violent Globalisms – Conflict
in Response to Empire (London, 2008); and Counterterrorism
and International Power Relations: The EU, ASEAN and
Hegemonic Global Governance (London, 2009).
Michael Bauer is Research Fellow
at the Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP) at the
University of Munich in Germany.
He works on various aspects of international and European
security policy, in particular on counterterrorism. The
regional focus of his research is the Middle East and its
politics with special emphasis on the Gulf region. Michael
Bauer is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology
of the University of Munich. He has studied international
politics in Munich and Aberystwyth (UK) and holds a degree
in Educational Science from the Munich School of Philosophy.
His publications include: Terrorismus: Bedrohungsszenarien
und Abwehrstrategien (Munich, 2002); Peace-Building
Durch‚ Strukturelle
Stabilität? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Konfliktpräventionsparadigmas
der Europäischen Union (München, 2005); ‘Terrorism:
September 11, 2001 and its Consequences’, in Gordon
Martel (ed.), A Companion to International History:
1900–2001
(Oxford, 2007); ‘Reflexive Moderne und Neuer Terrorismus’,
in Thomas Kron and Melanie Reddig (ed.), Analysen des
Transnationalen Terrorismus: Soziologische Perspektiven (Wiesbaden,
2007); ‘Organisation
und Rechtlicher Rahmen des Politikfelds Inneres und Justiz
nach dem Vertrag von Lissabon’, in Werner Weidenfeld
(ed.), Lissabon in der Analyse (Baden-Baden, 2008).
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Since September 11, 2001, the pressure on Al Qaeda has increased. Training sanctuaries and havens have been eliminated, and numerous fighters of the organization have been killed, captured or are in hiding. Today, Al Qaeda can be understood – according to many analysts – much more as an ideological platform than an operative terror organization: Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri cannot provide tactical leadership. But they pose a new, more virtual threat insofar as recruitment, training and indoctrination, as well as propaganda, have moved to small cell operations in virtually every country, under the Al Qaeda ideological banner.
The stark fact is that the execution of the global war on terrorism has not decreased international terrorism directed against the West. In view of this apparent failure of present strategies, the editors have sought the opinions of eight distinguished scholars and experts in the field to reflect on the following questions: What additional actions are required in counterterrorism policy to reverse the increase in terror-directed activities? What are the main shortcomings of current policy initiatives? And, what policy recommendations can they make as a result of recent developments in counterterrorism theory and new data on terror perpetrators and incidents? Their answers set out in this volume provide important contributions – academic, scientific, and practical – to the debate on how to effectively counter terrorism, which methods to pursue, and which means to apply.
The volume is structured in three parts: Possible anticipatory actions in the context of counterterrorism and prevention; the question of reasonable reaction to a perceived or real threat; and discussion on the effects of an attack and how to deal with them.
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978 1 84519 303 4 h/b |
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272 pp. / 229 x 152 mm |
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March 2009 |
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£55.00 / $79.50 |
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