© Columbia University Press
Playing Politics with Terrorism: A User's Guide
Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70001-6
$24.50
November, 2007
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70000-9
$79.50
"Brilliant, mind-opening stuff." — The Independent
"An important book for anyone who is interested in political agenda setting, responses to terrorism, and the effects of terrorism. " — Stuart Lee, Birmingham Post
"This is both a radical and traditional examination of the politics of terror. Radical in that it presents terrorism as a complex phenomenon rooted in real life experience best understood and combated by open minds with the support of fully-briefed populations, and traditional in that it expects political leaders to tell the truth about terror insofar as they can - and that to exploit the fears of the public for political gain is as counter-productive as it is currently widespread." — Crispin Black, former advisor, Joint Intelligence Committee, British Cabinet Office
"An extraordinary collection of original, penetrating, and compellingly written essays, Playing Politics with Terrorism challenges all our assumptions about the relationship between democracy and terrorism. An eye-opener of a book on the world after 9/11." — Jessica Stern, Harvard University