Counterterror Offensives for the Ghost War World

The Rudiments of Counterterrorism Policy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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In Counterterror Offensives for the Ghost War World: The Rudiments of Counterterrorism Policy, Richard J. Chasdi has written a groundbreaking quantitative analysis that provides new insight into which types of counterterror practices work best and which types perform poorly in particular operational environments and circumstances. For Chasdi, "effectiveness" is defined as the capacity of counterterror practices to work with "stealth"-namely, without eliciting high amounts of related follow-up terrorist assaults. He moves beyond individual country analyses to tackle an analysis of counterterror practice effectiveness based on the type of political system of the country carrying out counterterror offensives and the power level of that country within the international political system. Chasdi furthermore provides essential qualitative descriptions of national security institutions, stakeholders, and processes to frame his quantitative results in ways that tie those findings to historical and contemporary political developments.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-07-06
Mått:163 x 240 x 61 mm
Vikt:1 588 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:908
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739107942

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Richard J. Chasdi is associate professor in the Department of Management at Walsh College.

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Dr. Richard J. Chasdi’s most recent book, Counterterror Offensives for the Ghost World War, provides a historical and analytical look at patterns, relationships, and effectiveness in counterterror practice. Chasdi’s well-researched, 877-page effort provides several significant theoretical and analytical contributions. Bottom line: the text is both a good read and reference. ... Counterterror provides an excellent basis for analysis and is in itself a sufficient reason to read this text. ... Counterterror provides a deluge of descriptive and inferential statistics in the form of frequency tables, bar graphs, contingency table analysis, and negative binomial regression models. The vast majority of the book is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of these results, making it mostly a quantitative contribution. ... In balance, Dr. Chasdi provides three major contributions in Counterterror. He provides a conceptual framework that makes sense. He provides detailed statistical analysis that is useful to both modeling and understanding counterterror considerations. And he provides reasonable analysis of interactions and relationships among factors. In balance, the text is a worthwhile read and reference.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Chapter 1—An Introduction to Counterterror Concepts and MethodsChapter 3 Chapter 2—The Contours of Counterterror Practices: Approaches and Actions, What is Known and Gaps in Knowledge, a Functional Typology of Counterterror EventsChapter 4 Chapter 3—Theoretical Conceptualizations and MethodologyChapter 5 Chapter 4—The Case of Counterterror in Western Style Liberal Democracies: Basic Contours of the Counterterror Practices of Four Nation-StatesChapter 6 Chapter 5—The Case of Counterterror in Authoritarian Democracies and an Authoritarian Regime: Basic Contours of the Counterterror Practices of Three Nation-StatesChapter 7 Chapter 6—Analysis of the Effects of Two Structural Explanatory Factors on Counterterror Event OutcomesChapter 8 Chapter 7—ConclusionsChapter 9 Methodological Appendices