Preface vii Acknowledgements x 1 Introduction 1 2 Terrorism as Unjust War: Killing Innocent Civilians 6 Three problems with the just-war analysis of terrorism 9 A different sense of 'innocence' 18 War crime, ordinary crime or a special offence? 21 3 Terrorism as a Political Tactic: Intending to Instil Fear 31 What sort of 'ism' is terrorism? 32 What terrorists want 35 Fear is the key 45 Summing up 48 4 States Can Be Terrorists, Too 50 The definitional ploy 53 States terrorizing other states 60 States ...
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Preface vii Acknowledgements x 1 Introduction 1 2 Terrorism as Unjust War: Killing Innocent Civilians 6 Three problems with the just-war analysis of terrorism 9 A different sense of 'innocence' 18 War crime, ordinary crime or a special offence? 21 3 Terrorism as a Political Tactic: Intending to Instil Fear 31 What sort of 'ism' is terrorism? 32 What terrorists want 35 Fear is the key 45 Summing up 48 4 States Can Be Terrorists, Too 50 The definitional ploy 53 States terrorizing other states 60 States terrorizing their own people 66 State-sponsored terror and crimes of complicity 73 5 Warnings Can Be Terroristic, Too: Profiting Politically from Fear 78 Threats and warnings 80 Impure warnings: 'terrorist warnings' versus 'warnings of terrorism' 85 Politicians' intentions matter, too 91 Terrorism as an aggravated wrong: is 'violence' required? 100 Better 'terrorist warnings' than none at all? 108 6 Warnings Bound to Be Misheard 111 How big a deal is terrorism? 114 Calibrating risks 118 Mechanisms of misperception 123 Mass-mediated terror 131 Risks of really mass destruction 136 Imprudent precautions 142 7 Terrorizing Democracy 156 Terrorism as a political wrong 156 Fearlessness as a response 159 Hobbesian solutions to non-Hobbesian problems 170 Of tyrants and terrorists 176 8 Conclusions 179 Notes 187 References 218 Index 238
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