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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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How to Survive the End of the World As We know It.Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times
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ISBN: 9780452295834 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York ,New York Plume / Penguin Books Ltd

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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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Philosophie in Zeiten des Terrors
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ISBN: 3865723586 Year: 2004


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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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Are Lives A Substitute for Livelihoods ? : Terrorism, Security, and U.S. Bilateral Imports
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Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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What is the impact of terrorism on trade through higher security at the borders? The authors set up a theory which shows that the impact goes not only from terrorism to trade. Higher trade with a partner might, in turn, increase the probability of terrorism acts and make security measures more costly for total welfare. To identify the true impact of terrorism, their theory allows for a strategy to condition out the latter mechanism. The authors show in particular how past incidents perpetrated in third countries (anywhere in the world except the origin or targeted country) constitute good exogenous factors for current security measures at the borders. Their tests suggest that terrorist incidents have a small effect on U.S. imports on average, but a much higher effect for those origin countries at the top of the distribution of incidents. In addition, the level of the impact is up to three times higher when the acts result in a relatively high number of victims, the products are sensitive to shipping time, and the size of the partner is small. The authors further show how terrorism affects the number of business visas given by the United States, thereby affecting significantly U.S. imports in differentiated products. These results suggest that security to prevent terrorism does matter for trade.


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Are Lives A Substitute for Livelihoods ? : Terrorism, Security, and U.S. Bilateral Imports
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Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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What is the impact of terrorism on trade through higher security at the borders? The authors set up a theory which shows that the impact goes not only from terrorism to trade. Higher trade with a partner might, in turn, increase the probability of terrorism acts and make security measures more costly for total welfare. To identify the true impact of terrorism, their theory allows for a strategy to condition out the latter mechanism. The authors show in particular how past incidents perpetrated in third countries (anywhere in the world except the origin or targeted country) constitute good exogenous factors for current security measures at the borders. Their tests suggest that terrorist incidents have a small effect on U.S. imports on average, but a much higher effect for those origin countries at the top of the distribution of incidents. In addition, the level of the impact is up to three times higher when the acts result in a relatively high number of victims, the products are sensitive to shipping time, and the size of the partner is small. The authors further show how terrorism affects the number of business visas given by the United States, thereby affecting significantly U.S. imports in differentiated products. These results suggest that security to prevent terrorism does matter for trade.


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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.

After the terror
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ISBN: 0748616675 Year: 2002 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- -Social ethics --- Ethics --- Social problems --- Sociology --- 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- 911 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Attack on America, 2001 (September 11 Terrorist Attacks) --- Nine-Eleven Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Pentagon-World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- September 11 Terror Attacks, 2001 --- September 11 Terrorism, 2001 --- Terrorist Attacks, September 11, 2001 --- World Trade Center-Pentagon Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Hijacking of aircraft --- Terrorism --- Moral and ethical aspects --- 11 september 2001 [Terroristische aanslagen van ] --- 11 septembre 2001 [Attaques terroristes du ] --- 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 --- Pentagon (Va.) Terrorist Attack, 2001 --- Pentagon [Attaque terroriste du ], 2001 --- Pentagon [Terroristische aanslag op het ], 2001 --- September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001 --- Terroristische aanslagen, 11 september 2001 --- Tours jumelles [Attaque terroriste des ], 2001 --- Twin towers [Terrorist attack ], 2001 --- Twin towers [Terroristische aanslag op de ], 2001 --- 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 --- Social ethics --- Religious aspects --- Psychological aspects --- Social aspects

The war on our freedoms : civil liberties in an age of terrorism
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ISBN: 1586482106 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York Public Affairs

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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 --- Civil rights --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. --- Terrorism --- Droits de l'homme --- Attentats du 11 septembre 2001, Etats-Unis --- Terrorisme --- Prevention. --- Prévention --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Prévention --- Prevention --- 2001-2009

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