Suicide bombings / / Riaz Hassan
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| Autore: |
Hassan Riaz <1937-, >
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| Titolo: |
Suicide bombings / / Riaz Hassan
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (128 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.325 |
| Soggetto topico: | Suicide bombings |
| Terrorism - Psychological aspects | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Life as a weapon : historical roots of a modern phenomenon -- 2. The global rise of suicide bombings : analysis of trends -- 3. Explaining suicide bombings -- 4. Suicide bombings : homicidal killing or a weapon of war? -- 5. What have we learned? |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In an age when the Western world is preoccupied with worries about weapons of mass destruction in terrorist hands, terrorists across many parts of the globe are using a more basic device as a weapon - life itself. Suicide bombing has become a weapon of choice among terrorist groups because of its lethality and unrivalled ability to cause mayhem and fear, but what is the real driving force behind these attacks? For the first time, Suicide Bombings analyzes concrete data from The Suicide Terrorism Database at Flinders University, Australia, to explain what motivates the |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Suicide bombings |
| ISBN: | 1-283-24191-9 |
| 9786613241917 | |
| 1-136-80452-8 | |
| 0-203-82788-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456890403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Shortcuts (Routledge (Firm))