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Terrorizing ourselves : why U.S. counterterrorism policy is failing and how to fix it / edited by Benjamin H. Friedman, Jim Harper, and Christopher A. Preble.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism--United States.
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States.
- Terrorism--United States--Prevention.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Terrorizing Ourselves exposes and decries how politicians manipulate fear for political purposes, and it cuts through the confusion that Americans have about terrorism and shows how to counter it. As the book illustrates, anxiety about terrorism is driving military adventurism, exploding the national debt, militarizing domestic affairs, and shifting expenditures away from other urgent priorities. To replace the counterterrorism policies that are now failing, Terrorizing Ourselves offers disciplined responses that can defeat the internal logic of terrorism and erode its power as a tool against
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Defeating al Qaeda; 2. Terrorism as a Product of Choices and Perceptions; 3. Are There ''Root Causes'' for Terrorist Support?: Revisiting the Debate on Poverty, Education, and Terrorism; 4. Don't You Know There's a War On?: Assessing the Military's Role in Counterterrorism; 5. Assessing Counterterrorism, Homeland Security, and Risk; 6. Assessing Measures Designed to Protect the Homeland; 7. The Economics of Homeland Security; 8. The Atomic Terrorist?; 9. Assessing the Threat of Bioterrorism
- 10. Managing Fear: The Politics of Homeland Security11. The Impact of Fear on Public Thinking about Counterterrorism Policy: Implications for Communicators; 12. Communicating about Threat: Toward a Resilient Response toTerrorism; Notes; Index; Contributors; Cato Institute
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613085078
- 9781283085076
- 1283085070
- 9781935308317
- 1935308319
- OCLC:
- 667274176
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