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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Note to Readers | |
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| Why Are Religious Terrorists So Lethal? | |
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| Hezbollah | |
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| The Taliban | |
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| Hamas | |
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| The Lethality of Religious Radicals | |
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| What Motivates Terrorists? The Afterlife and Other Myths | |
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| Terrorist Organizations�Why So Few? | |
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| Internal Economies and Organizational Efficiency | |
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| What's Coming? | |
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| The Defection Constraint | |
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| Origins of the Taliban | |
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| Trade Routes and Defection | |
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| Coordinated Assault | |
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| Terrorism and Defection�Hamas | |
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| The Jewish Underground�Terrorists Who Overreached | |
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| Hezbollah and Suicide Attacks | |
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| The Mahdi Army in Iraq | |
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| Sects, Prohibitions, and Mutual Aid: The Organizational Secrets of Religious Radicals | |
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| Prohibitions and Sacrifices�the Benign Puzzles | |
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| Where Are the Dads? | |
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| Mutual Aid | |
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| Prohibitions and Clubs | |
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| Evidence | |
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| Fertility | |
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| Pronatalist Prohibitions | |
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| Radical Islam and Fertility | |
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| Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice | |
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| Subsidized Sacrifice | |
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| Madrassas | |
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| Subsidized Prohibitions and Fertility | |
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| How Many Radical Islamists? | |
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| Recap | |
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| The Hamas Model: Why Religious Radicals Are Such Effective Terrorists | |
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| The "Hamas Model" | |
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| Origins of the Model | |
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| Hamas | |
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| Social Service Provision by the Taliban, Hezbollah, and al-Sadr | |
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| "Why Religious Radicals Are Such Lethal Terrorists | |
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| Terrorist Clubs | |
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| Evidence | |
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| When Terrorists Fail | |
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| Clubs and Violence without Religion | |
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| Gratuitous Cruelty | |
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| Objections | |
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| Why Suicide Attacks? | |
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| Rebels, Insurgents, and Terrorists | |
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| Suicide Attacks | |
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| Evidence | |
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| Coreligionists Are Soft Targets | |
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| Clubs | |
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| Alternative Explanations | |
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| The Future of Suicide Attacks? | |
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| Constructive Counterterrorism | |
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| How Terrorist Clubs Succeed | |
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| Constructive Counterterrorism | |
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| What's Wrong with the Old-Fashioned Methods? | |
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| Where to Start? | |
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| The Malayan Precedent | |
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| Religious Radicals and Violence in the Modern World | |
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| Radical Christians, Benign and Violent | |
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| The Supernatural and Credibility | |
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| Markets and Denominations | |
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| Jewish and Muslim Denominations | |
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| What's Wrong with Religion in Government? Competition and Pluralism | |
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| Not about Us | |
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| What's Our Role? | |
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| Analytical Appendix | |
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| The Defection Constraint | |
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| Clubs, Loyalty, and Outside Options | |
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| Suicide Attacks vs. Hard Targets | |
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| Protecting Hard Targets by Improving Outside Options | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |