Counter-terrorism against new terrorism

Author: Ian Lesser
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This monograph by the RAND Corporation, a think tank of the U.S. government, systematically discusses the development and evolution of terrorism over the past decades and its new characteristics under the new historical conditions. It is astonishing that the English edition of this book was published in the United States in 1999, and the prophecy in the book that the World Trade Center in New York might become a target of a terrorist attack and be destroyed was unfortunately fulfilled in the "9·11" incident in 2001. This highly foresighted and cautionary monograph emphasizes that counter-terrorism will be a long-term strategic task for the international community and proposes multifaceted measures and suggestions to combat new terrorism.