The war on terror's emphasis on denying sanctuary and safe havens to terrorists has placed a premium on physical territory, from mountain caves and frontier hideouts to the bordered world of modern states. Denial of Sanctuary highlights the limits of conventional thinking on the subject, and suggests new approaches to understanding this complex and misunderstood feature of modern conflict. Critics of the war on terror have pointed to the futility of waging war on a tactic. Its emphasis on denying sanctuary and safe havens to terrorists, rooted primarily in traditional counterinsurgency theory…mehr
The war on terror's emphasis on denying sanctuary and safe havens to terrorists has placed a premium on physical territory, from mountain caves and frontier hideouts to the bordered world of modern states. Denial of Sanctuary highlights the limits of conventional thinking on the subject, and suggests new approaches to understanding this complex and misunderstood feature of modern conflict. Critics of the war on terror have pointed to the futility of waging war on a tactic. Its emphasis on denying sanctuary and safe havens to terrorists, rooted primarily in traditional counterinsurgency theory and poorly conceptualized policy statements, has placed a premium on physical territory, from mountain caves and frontier hideouts to the bordered world of modern states. To fully understand sanctuaries is to uncover the problems and pitfalls of waging war on locations-exposing the secret lives of multiple hidden worlds, filled with extremists, criminals, soldiers, and spies, with the pious and the profane, with dangers that lie below the surface and in the margins. As this volume makes abundantly clear, such a murky underground is far more complex and varied than the conventional wisdom suggests. Terrorists have hidden in plain sight in modern cities, used advanced communications technology to build virtual refuges, crafted militant enclaves out of the disarray of failed states, flocked to distinctly unsafe insurgent battlespaces, and generally challenged the protective limits of law, citizenship, and state. Denial of Sanctuary brings together top experts in the field to expand the debate; to explore the roots, causes and consequences of the problem; and to clarify our understanding of sanctuary in terrorist thought and practice.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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Autorenporträt
Michael A. Innes is Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, and a Research and Practice Associate of the Institute for National Security and Counter-Terrorism, College of Law/Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. His research and writing focuses on intermediacy in armed conflict, and touches on broader theories and histories of political violence, sanctuary, surrogacy, and political and legal exceptionalism. His publications include an edited monograph, Bosnian Security after Dayton: New Perspectives (2006), as well as articles, essays, and reviews in such journals as Civil Wars, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, SAIS Review, and the Journal of Conflict Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword by Michael F. Scheuer Preface 1. Cracks in the System: Sanctuary and Terrorism After 9/11 Michael A. Innes 2. Critical Reflections on Counter-Sanctuary Discourse Richard Jackson 3. Netwar, the Modern Geopolitical Imagination, and the Death of the Civilian Colin Flint 4. The Failure of al Qaeda Basing Projects from Afghanistan to Iraq Brian Glyn Williams 5. Constraints and Opportunities in Ungoverned Spaces: The Horn of Africa Kenneth J. Menkhaus 6. Iraq and the Edges of Terrorist Space Alice Hills 7. Terrorist Finance and the Criminal Underground Rohan Kumar Gunaratna and Arabinda Acharyna 8. Legal Sanctuaries and Predator Strikes in the War on Terror William C. Banks 9. Exploring the Role of Virtual Camps Jarret Brachman and James J.F. Forest 10. Hiding in Plain Sight in Londonistan Jeffrey M. Bale 11. From Sanctuaries to Protostates Vanda Felbab-Brown Notes Select Bibliography Index About the Editor and Contributors
Foreword by Michael F. Scheuer Preface 1. Cracks in the System: Sanctuary and Terrorism After 9/11 Michael A. Innes 2. Critical Reflections on Counter-Sanctuary Discourse Richard Jackson 3. Netwar, the Modern Geopolitical Imagination, and the Death of the Civilian Colin Flint 4. The Failure of al Qaeda Basing Projects from Afghanistan to Iraq Brian Glyn Williams 5. Constraints and Opportunities in Ungoverned Spaces: The Horn of Africa Kenneth J. Menkhaus 6. Iraq and the Edges of Terrorist Space Alice Hills 7. Terrorist Finance and the Criminal Underground Rohan Kumar Gunaratna and Arabinda Acharyna 8. Legal Sanctuaries and Predator Strikes in the War on Terror William C. Banks 9. Exploring the Role of Virtual Camps Jarret Brachman and James J.F. Forest 10. Hiding in Plain Sight in Londonistan Jeffrey M. Bale 11. From Sanctuaries to Protostates Vanda Felbab-Brown Notes Select Bibliography Index About the Editor and Contributors
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