Making Sense of Suicide Missions

Name: Making Sense of Suicide Missions
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ISBN: 9780199297979

ISBN-10: 0199297975

ISBN-13: 9780199297979

Edition: 2006

Authors: Diego Gambetta

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Suicide attacks have become the defining act of political violence of our age. From New York City to Baghdad, from Sri Lanka to Israel, few can doubt that they are a terrifying feature of an increasing number of violent conflicts. Since 1981, around 30 organizations throughout the world - some of them secular and others affiliated to radical Islam - have carried out more than 600 suicide missions. Although a tiny fraction of the overall number of guerrilla and terrorist attacks occurring in the same period, the results have proved significantly more lethal. This book is the first to shed real light on these extraordinary acts, and provide answers to the questions we all ask. Are these the…

Book details

List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Diego Gambetta is Official Fellow of Nuffield College and professor of sociology at the University of Oxford. He is the author of "The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection" and editor of "Making Sense of Suicide Missions".



Foreword


List of Tables


List of Figures


List of Contributors



Kamikaze, 1943-5




Tamil Tigers, 1987-2002




Palestinians, 1981-2003




Al-Qaeda, September 11, 2001




Dying Without Killing: Self-Immolations, 1963-2002




Killing Without Dying: The Absence of Suicide Missions




Motivations and Beliefs in Suicide Missions




Can We Make Sense of Suicide Missions?




Epilogue to the Paperback Edition


Notes


References


Index to the Epilogue


Index