Reviews
New Review in Journal of Strategic Studies
Peter Krause writes in the most recent issue of Journal of Strategic Studies (October 2010) that How Terrorism Ends "provides a wide-ranging analysis of a subject in its early phases that can serve as a springboard to future studies."
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Audrey Kurth Cronin observes that despite variation in casualties, objectives, and longevity, all previous terrorism campaigns have had one key characteristic in common: they ended. Therefore, she argues that the best way to develop counterterrorism policy is to thoroughly analyze the final stages of previous terrorist organizations in the hope that the resulting findings can provide improved guidance to those who wish to better understand terrorism campaigns and bring them to a close.
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Dr. Christopher Mackmurdo, a Research Analyst at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, reviews How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns for Global Policy in the October 2010 issue.
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A counterterrorism (CT) strategy that lacks perspective will not work. An awareness of local and historical trends and contexts, the ability to incorporate lessons of the past and familiarity with the bigger picture are all essential components of an effective CT toolkit. Perspective allows governments to disaggregate actors and issues and nuance their interventions in order to meet the difficult challenge of understanding terrorism threats and formulating effective counterterrorism responses.
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Nicholas Michelsen, King’s College London, UK, reviews How terrorism ends: understanding the decline and demise of terrorist campaigns, for International Affaris (86: 4, 2010). By Audrey Kurth Cronin. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2009. 311pp. £20.95. ISBN 978 0 69113 948 7.
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While the causes of terrorism have long been subject to avid research, Audrey Kurth Cronin’s cogent and thoughtful text responds to the curious dearth of works attending to its ends.
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