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State Response to International Terrorism: Some Cautionary Comments

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Current Perspectives on International Terrorism

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Terrorism is a phenomenon that is increasingly coming to dominate our lives. It influences the way governments conduct their foreign policy and corporations transact their business. It causes changes to the structure and role of our security forces and necessitates huge expenditures on measures to protect public figures, vital installations, citizens and, perhaps in the final analysis, our system of government. It affects the way we travel, the places we visit and the manner in which we live our daily lives. Our newspapers, radios and televisions saturate our every waking moment with the lurid details of the latest terrorist spectacular.

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  1. Defense Intelligence College, Washington, DC, USA

    Robert O. Slater (Director of Research) (Director of Research)

  2. Department of Political Science, Purdue University, USA

    Michael Stohl (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies) (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies)

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Wardlaw, G. (1988). State Response to International Terrorism: Some Cautionary Comments. In: Slater, R.O., Stohl, M. (eds) Current Perspectives on International Terrorism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18989-2_7

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