Does terrorism work

Victory is a concept that rarely applies to modern terrorism. Terrorism is the realm of partial victories and, more often than not, of elongated stalemates. A terrorist group may well shed blood in the name of pushing forward its purported agenda, only to find itself hemmed in and perhaps eliminated by state security forces. But the germ of the terrorists' cause might live on, perhaps in the form of political movements it inspires or changes into. As for the state, while it may defiantly declare not to have given in to the terrorists, this rings hollow if it made big concessions along the way or adopted such repressive measures as to have justified their grievances. In other words, it is hard for any side to declare victory. What can be construed as success in a terrorist campaign is a worthy subject for scholarly attention. Richard English's book asks a straightforward question: does terrorism work? The answer is anything but simple. At its heart, English's undertaking is to study causation and outcomes. He unpicks the agendas and operations of different terrorist campaigns so as to fathom how far their causes were advanced, and in what conditions this occurred

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