What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Terrorist Threat - Tapa blanda

'Louise Richardson is a world authority on global terrorism. Here she brings her unique insights into the motivations of terrorists across the world into a passionate, incisive and groundbreaking argument that provocatively overturns the myths surrounding terrorism.' -- Mary Robinson 'Richardson sweeps aside conventional and woolly notions of terrorism.' -- FT Magazine 'Simply the best thing of its kind available now in this highly crowded area' -- Evening Standard: Robert Fox 'Refreshingly clear.' -- Metro 20060605 'A thoughtful and stimulating study of the greatest security problem facing the world today' -- Deaglan de Breadun, Irish Times 20060624 'Rigorous, lucid and highly readable' -- Bookseller 20060624

Why do seemingly ordinary young men and women volunteer to turn themselves into human bombs? What can we do to stop them? In What Terrorists Want Louise Richardson investigates these crucial questions. She delves into the minds of terrorists and demystifies the threat we face today. She draws on her unique contact with real terrorists as well as years of teaching and research at Harvard to show that terrorists are not crazed criminals but rational, ideological actors willing to exploit their own weaknesses to maximum effect. By introducing us to other terrorists in other times she shows that an understanding of terrorism today must look way beyond 9/11 and simplistic associations with Islam.