Research Catalog

Title

The political economy of terrorism / Walter Enders, Todd Sandler.

Author

Enders, Walter, 1948-

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

Sandler, Todd

Description

xvi, 390 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Professors Enders and Sandler coauthored the first edition of this title. The Political Economy of Terrorism: Second Edition presents a widely accessible political economy approach to the study of terrorism. It applies economic methodology ,♯ ︡theoretical and empirical ,♯ ︡combined with political analysis and realities to the study of domestic and transnational terrorism. In so doing, the book provides both a qualitative and quantitative investigation of terrorism in a balanced up-to-date presentation that informs students, policy makers, researchers, and the general reader of the current state of knowledge. Included are historical aspects, a discussion of watershed events, the rise of modern-day terrorism, examination of current trends, the dilemma of liberal democracies, evaluation of counterterrorism, analysis of hostage incidents, and much more. The new edition expands coverage of every chapter, adds a new chapter on terrorist network structures and organization, accounts for changes in the Department of Homeland Security, and the USA Patriot Act, and insurance against terrorism. Rational-actor models of terrorist and government behavior and game-theoretic analysis are presented for readers with no prior theoretical training. Where relevant, the authors display graphs using data from International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events (ITERATE), the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), and other public-access data sets"--

Subject

• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory
• Terrorism
• Terrorism > Economic aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-378) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Terrorism: an introduction -- The dilemma of liberal democracies -- Statistical studies and the dynamics of terrorist behavior -- Counterterrorism -- Transference -- International cooperation: dilemma and inhibitors -- Hostage taking -- Terrorist groups and their organization -- Before and after 9/11 -- The economic impact of terrorism -- Homeland security -- The future of terrorism.

ISBN

• 9781107004566 (hardback)
• 110700456X (hardback)
• 9780521181006 (paperback)
• 0521181003 (paperback)

LCCN

^^2011015035

OCLC

712780977

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library