Unconventional weapons and international terrorism : challenges and new approaches
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Unconventional weapons and international terrorism : challenges and new approaches
（Cass series on political violence）
Routledge, 2009
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book addresses the critical importance of understanding innovation and decision-making between terrorist groups and unconventional weapons, and the difficulty in pinpointing what factors may drive violence escalation. It is useful for students of terrorism studies and nuclear proliferation.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Detecting CBRN terrorism signatures - challenges and new approaches Part I: The status of CBRN terrorism research 1. Defining knowledge gaps within CBRN terrorism research Part II: Al-Qaeda motivations/incentives for CBRN terrorism 2. WMD and the four dimensions of al-Qaeda 3. Al-Qaeda's thinking on CBRN: A case study Part III: CBRN, capacity-building and proliferation 4. Indicators of chemical terrorism 5. Capacity-building and proliferation: Biological terrorism 6. Terrorism and potential biological warfare agents 7. Influence diagram analysis of nuclear and radiological terrorism Part IV: CRBN and terrorism: Dilemmas of prediction? 8. Approaching threat convergence from an intelligence perspective 9. Terrifying landscapes: Understanding motivations of non-state actors to acquire and/or use weapons of mass destruction 10. Conclusion
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