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Discusses the resurgence of terrorism in the late 1960s and early 1970s and explores the relationship between terrorism and social revolution, arguing that terrorist action is inherently conservative
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In a calm, level-headed analysis, Rubenstein offers a powerful rebuttal to many assumptions about terrorism. He maintains that terrorist acts are often the responses of frustrated people to American-sponsored oppression that is intended to protect U.S. imperial interests. The average terrorist may be like "the guy next door," living on the edge of despair. A professor at the Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C., Rubenstein refutes the notion that terrorist movements are products of outside manipulation or links in a unified "red terrorist network." The conditions that allowed the early Ku Klux Klan to flourishpostwar disorder, nationalist solidarityhave much to tell us about current terrorist activity around the world. The logic of terrorist acts, according to the author, makes terrorism an appealing tool for some Third World nationalists and conservatives, but a bane to social revolutionaries who favor mass activism and genuine change.
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Terrorism, claims Rubenstein (Antioch Sch. of Law, Washington, D.C.), is initiated by militants who are unable to organize mass violence or mobilize political support for their cause. He seeks to survey the contemporary upsurge in terrorist activity objectively and discover an underlying thread in its history. He focuses on terrorism as it is used by both political agitators and the state, as well as the prominence of the urban guerrillas and revolutionaries. His span is sufficient to cover groups ranging from the far right nationalists to the leftist communists. The author's "solution" to the "problem" is to encourage wide-scale political participation in those states that experience terrorism. A good intellectual survey for current affairs collections. Sanford R. Silverburg, Political Science Dept., Catawba Coll., Salisbury, N.C.
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- PublisherBasic Books
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0465000940
- ISBN 13 9780465000944
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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