"-Barry Gewen, New York Times Book Review; "Written with great clarity and perception, Alan Dershowitz's new book on the murderous impact of international terrorism helps the reader understand the religious fanaticism and misguided political violence that continue to plague the twenty-first century, as well as their unavoidable consequences. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Hezbollah’s significant role in Lebanon further challenges arguments about terrorism’s strategic futility. The terrorist campaigns waged by both these organizations, it should be emphasized, were only one facet of a broader confrontation that dominated Anglo-Zionist relations throughout the mandate’s final decade. And even if terrorism’s power to dramatically change the course of history along the lines of the September 11 attacks has been mercifully infrequent, terrorism’s ability to act as a catalyst for wider conflagration or systemic political change appears historically undeniable. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the historical novelist cum military historian Caleb Carr consolingly averred, “The strategy of terror is a spectacularly failed one.” And in a 2006 article unambiguously titled “Why Terrorism Does Not Work,” the political scientist Max Abrahms argued that terrorism is a failed tactic. As the doyenne of terrorist studies, Martha Crenshaw, explained in her seminal 1981 article on the causes of terrorism, “Campaigns of terrorism depend on rational political choice. Yet a definitive answer unaccountably remains as elusive as a universally accepted definition of terrorism itself. “Terrorists can never win outright,” Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia declared in 1977. Much, much easier to get into than most other books of this genre. "Analyzing recent acts of terrorism and our reaction to them, Dershowitz explains that terrorism is successful when the international community gives in to the demands of terrorists - or even tries to understand and eliminate the "root causes" of terrorism. Does terrorism work? Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, National & International Security (Books). Terrorist organizations are learning organizations; they learn from one another. Winning was measured not in terms of enemy losses or assets destroyed but by psychological impact. The inherent clandestine nature of terrorist warfare was therefore used by the Irgun to confuse the government and force it to treat the entire Jewish community as the enemy, harboring or protecting or otherwise refusing to divulge information on the terrorists within its midst. All of its power comes from leveraging the imperfections of the human mind and the tendency for people to make dumb decisions when they’re consumed by fear. Before and After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis, by Phyllis Bennis. Further, the more aggressive and conspicuous the security forces were and the more pervasive the physical barriers and other visible defenses against terrorist attack became, the stronger and more powerful and threatening the terrorists appeared. Yale Univ. Then, during the 1940s, two Jewish terrorist organizations—the Irgun Zvai Le’umi (National Military Organization), led by Menachem Begin, later prime minister of Israel, and the Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel), known to Jews by its Hebrew acronym, Lehi, and to the British as the Stern Gang—arose to challenge Britain’s rule over Palestine. Rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don ’ t use a simple average )! 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