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Understanding terrorism : a socio-economic perspective
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ISBN: 1783508280 9781783508280 1783508272 9781783508273 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bingley, England : Emerald Group Publishing Limited,

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The recent proliferation of studies on terrorism has brought scholars from different fields and approaches to converge on this phenomenon. As a result, economists, social and political scientists have developed theories, evidence and, in a sense, even a peculiar jargon of their own. Starting from this assumption, the book aims to bring scholars with different expertise and background around the same table, showing how their individual perspectives can contribute to a broader understanding of the issue at stake. In other words, the aim that inspires the book is that the multi-disciplinary nature of terrorism requires a concerted effort by social sciences in particular, economics and political science. The book deals with a number of issues from the definition and forms of terrorism, to its economic determinants, from the distribution and forecast of terror attacks to the measurement of their impact on societies.


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The Benghazi terrorist attacks : separating fact from fiction (with accompanying CD-ROM)
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ISBN: 163463926X 9781634639262 1634639006 9781634639002 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers,

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The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (""HPSCI"" or ""the Committee"") conducted a comprehensive and exhaustive investigation into the tragic attacks against two U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya on September 11-12, 2012. The nearly two-year investigation focused on the activities of the Intelligence Community (""IC"") before, during, and after the attacks. During the course of thousands of hours of detailed investigation, HPSCI reviewed thousands of pages of intelligence assessments, cables, notes, and emails; held 20 Committee events and hearings; and conducted detailed inter


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Unsettled Belonging : Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11
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ISBN: 022628963X Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Unsettled Belonging tells the stories of young Palestinian Americans as they navigate and construct lives as American citizens. Following these youth throughout their school days, Thea Abu El-Haj examines citizenship as lived experience, dependent on various social, cultural, and political memberships. For them, she shows, life is characterized by a fundamental schism between their sense of transnational belonging and the exclusionary politics of routine American nationalism that ultimately cast them as impossible subjects. Abu El-Haj explores the school as the primary site where young people from immigrant communities encounter the central discourses about what it means to be American. She illustrates the complex ways social identities are bound up with questions of belonging and citizenship, and she details the processes through which immigrant youth are racialized via everyday nationalistic practices. Finally, she raises a series of crucial questions about how we educate for active citizenship in contemporary times, when more and more people's lives are shaped within transnational contexts. A compelling account of post-9/11 immigrant life, Unsettled Belonging is a steadfast look at the disjunctures of modern citizenship.


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The 1972 Munich Olympics and the making of modern Germany
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ISBN: 1282660837 9786612660832 0520947584 9780520947580 9780520262133 0520262131 9780520262157 0520262158 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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The 1972 Munich Olympics-remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team-were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered 11 members of the Israeli team. In the first cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, Kay Schiller and Christopher Young set these Games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad. Delving into newly available documents, Schiller and Young chronicle the impact of the Munich Games on West German society.


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The politics of prisoner abuse : the United States and enemy prisoners after 9/11
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ISBN: 9780521181105 9781107004665 1107004667 0521181100 9780511791567 1139088815 1107221072 113909260X 9786613193315 113909209X 1139093126 1139090291 0511791569 1283193310 1139091204 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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When states are threatened by war and terrorism, can we really expect them to abide by human rights and humanitarian law? David P. Forsythe's bold analysis of US policies towards terror suspects after 9/11 addresses this issue directly. Covering moral, political, and legal aspects, he examines the abuse of enemy detainees at the hands of the United States. At the center of the debate is the Bush Administration, which Forsythe argues displayed disdain for international law, in contrast to the general public's support for humanitarian affairs. Forsythe explores the similarities and differences between Presidents Obama and Bush on the question of prisoner treatment in an age of terrorism and asks how the Administration should proceed. The book traces the Pentagon's and CIA's records in mistreating prisoners, providing an account which will be of interest to all those who value human rights and humanitarian law.

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11 september 2001 [Terroristische aanslagen van ] --- 11 septembre 2001 [Attaques terroristes du ] --- 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Aanslagen op het World Trade Center en het Pentagon, 2001 --- Attaques terroristes du 11 septembre, 2001 --- Attentats terroristes du World Trade Center et du Pentagon, 2001 --- GWOT, 2001-2009 (War on Terrorism) --- Global War on Terror, 2001-2009 --- Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009 --- Oorlog tegen het terrorisme, 2001-2009 --- Pentagon (Va.) Terrorist Attack, 2001 --- Pentagon [Attaque terroriste du ], 2001 --- Pentagon [Terroristische aanslag op het ], 2001 --- Pentagon-World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- September 11 Terror Attacks, 2001 --- September 11 Terrorism, 2001 --- September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001 --- Terrorist Attacks, September 11, 2001 --- Terroristische aanslagen, 11 september 2001 --- Tours jumelles [Attaque terroriste des ], 2001 --- Twin towers [Terrorist attack ], 2001 --- Twin towers [Terroristische aanslag op de ], 2001 --- War against Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- War on Terror, 2001-2009 --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.) Terrorist Attack, 2001 --- World Trade Center [Attaque terroriste du ], 2001 --- World Trade Center [Terroristische aanslag op het ], 2001 --- World Trade Center-Pentagon Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Abuse of rights --- Political prisoners --- Prisoners of war --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. --- Terrorism --- Terrorists --- Torture --- United States. --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. --- Abuse of --- Government policy --- Civil rights. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism, 2001-2009 --- Terror War, 2001-2009 --- Terrorism War, 2001-2009 --- Military history, Modern --- World politics --- Afghan War, 2001 --- -Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001 --- -9/11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- 911 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Attack on America, 2001 (September 11 Terrorist Attacks) --- Nine-Eleven Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Hijacking of aircraft --- Prevention --- United States --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Afghan War, 2001-2021 --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

Medical treatment of intoxications and decontamination of chemical agents in the area of terrorist attack
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ISSN: 18714641 ISBN: 9781402041686 1402041683 1402041691 9786610427345 1280427345 1402041705 Year: 2006 Volume: v. 1 Publisher: Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer,

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This book includes reports which were presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled “Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamination of Chemical Agent in the Area of Terrorist Attack”. The workshop was held on 25-28 January 2005 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Currently, scientists and experts from many countries are working on development and implementation of a readiness for anti terrorist actions. In addition to chemical weapons, terrorists can use various toxic chemicals from chemical industry, agriculture or products released from terrorist acts on industrial facilities. The arsenal of chemical agents that can be used as terrorist agents is practically unlimited. The focus of this workshop was assessment of scientific concepts and practical means for management of chemical agent casualties in the area of terrorist attack with emphasis on improving the medical treatment and decontamination. These problems were analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective. The primary objective of the ARW was to provide countries in which chemical-defense systems are currently under development with the experience and expertise of those that are more advanced and/or have already been exposed and responded to a chemical-terrorist attack. . The main areas covered were: 1. new approaches in pre-treatment and prophylaxis of nerve agent intoxication; 2. diagnosis of exposure to chemical agents ; 3. therapy of chemical agent intoxication; 4. development of personal decontamination; 5. decontamination of intoxication with chemical agents.

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Victims of terrorism --- Chemical terrorism --- Chemical Terrorism --- Chemical Warfare --- Antidotes --- Chemical Warfare Agents --- Decontamination --- Medical care --- Congresses --- Health aspects --- prevention & control --- therapeutic use --- poisoning --- methods --- Chemical terrorism -- Health aspects -- Congresses. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Victims of terrorism -- Medical care -- Congresses. --- Poisoning --- Methods --- Protective Agents --- Weapons of Mass Destruction --- Weapons --- Terrorism --- War --- Substance-Related Disorders --- Publication Formats --- Poisons --- Investigative Techniques --- Public Health Practice --- Publication Characteristics --- Manufactured Materials --- Physiological Effects of Drugs --- Diseases --- Public Health --- Noxae --- Specialty Uses of Chemicals --- Violence --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Social Problems --- Crime --- Chemical Actions and Uses --- Sociology --- Pharmacologic Actions --- Environment and Public Health --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Toxic Actions --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Health Care --- Social Sciences --- Criminology --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology --- Emergency Medicine --- War & Public Health --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Terrorism victims --- Medicine. --- Pharmacology. --- Chemistry. --- Emergency medicine. --- Critical care medicine. --- Occupational medicine. --- Biomedicine. --- Pharmacology/Toxicology. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Safety in Chemistry, Dangerous Goods. --- Victims of crimes --- Toxicology. --- Medicine, Industrial. --- Chemicals --- Safety measures. --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Industrial medicine --- Medicine, Occupational --- Occupational medicine --- Occupational diseases --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Pharmacology --- Toxicology --- Physical sciences --- Drug effects --- Medical pharmacology --- Medical sciences --- Chemotherapy --- Drugs --- Pharmacy --- Physiological effect --- Medical treatment --- Intoxicants --- Terrorist attack

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