Evaluating Counterterrorism Performance : A Comparative Study

ISBN-13: 9780415598866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 376 str.

Beatrice de Graaf;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This book offers a new model for measuring the success and impact of counterterrorism strategies, using four comparative historical case studies. The effectiveness of counterterrorism measures is hard to assess, especially since the social impact of terrorist attacks is a fundamental and complex issue. This book focuses on the impact of counterterrorist measures by introducing the concept of the performative power of counterterrorism: the extent to which governments mobilize public and political support - thereby sometimes even unwittingly assisting terrorists in creating social drama. The concept is applied to counterterrorism in the Netherlands, Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States in the 1970s. Based on in-depth case study research using new primary sources and interviews with counterterrorist officials and radicals, a correlation is established between a low level of performative power and a decline of terrorist incidents.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Dutch Approach’: Restrained and fragmented  3. The Federal Republic of Germany: Democracy Under Fire  4. Counterterrorism in the United States: Countering Subversives, Revolutionaries and Communists  5. Counterterrorism in Italy: Deception or Mismanagement?  6. The performative Power of Counterterrorism  7. Police Practice as Signifier  8. Intelligence Signifiers  9. Terrorists on Trial: The Courtroom as Stage  10. The ‘Performance’ of Counterterrorism Policy 

O autorze

Beatrice de Graaf is a Historian and Associate Professor at the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism at Leiden University, Netherlands.