Suicide TerrorismISBN: 978-0-7456-3382-4
Hardcover
240 pages
December 2005, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Australian Journal of Political Science
"A noteworthy and essential addition to the body of literature.
Pedahzur adds significant, accessible insight into suicide
operations that informs strategic, operational, and tactical
perspectives."
British Army Review
"Helps us understand the gendered nature of suicide
terrorism."
Nicola Pratt, Democratiya
"Suicide Terrorism is among the most authoritative and
incisive analyses of this subject available. Ami Pedahzur’s
meticulous research and trenchant analysis coupled with his direct
experience of suicide terrorism’s corrosive effects on
society endow the book with a perspective and gravitas unique in
the literature. Suicide Terrorism is essential reading for
anyone wanting to understand the emergence and growth of this
tactic and the best means to counter it."
Bruce Hoffman, US Military Academy, West Point; author of
Inside Terrorism
"This is a comprehensive approach to a difficult phenomenon by
someone who knows his subject well. Pedhazur writes with the cool
clarity of a seasoned social scientist, but with the sensitivity of
one who has lived through suicide attacks and can count former
students and colleagues among the victims. Comparing cases of
Muslim militants associated with Al-Qaeda, Hamas and Hizbollah,
with Sri Lankan Tamil separatists, Kurdish nationalists and
Japanese kamikaze fighters, he derives a complex analytic framework
with cultural, political and socio-psychological dimensions. This
book brings our understanding of this increasingly familiar form of
terrorism to a new level of sophistication."
Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God: The
Global Rise of Religious Violence
"Ami Pedahzur has established himself as one of the most astute
observers of terrorist violence in general and suicide terrorism in
particular. In this work he answers all the crucial questions
concerning the when, why and how of suicide attacks. This is an
outstanding book by an outstanding young scholar."
Leonard Weinberg, University of Nevada Reno
"Suicide Terrorism is an exhaustive study and provides
incisive analysis of the subject."
Mia Bloom, University of Georgia