Contemporary Terrorism Studies

The Strategy of Terrorism: How it Works, and Why it Fails

1st Edition

By Peter R. Neumann, M.L.R. Smith
March 05, 2009

This is the first book to set out a comprehensive framework by which to understand terrorism as strategy. It contends that even terrorism of the supposedly nihilist variety can be viewed as a bona fide method for distributing means to fulfil the ends of policy, that is, as a strategy. The main ...