Hank V. Savitch 2008: Cities In A Time Of Terror. Space, Territory, And Local Resilience. Armonk, Ny: M.e. Sharpe

摘要

What can a new book on contemporary terrorism bring to its readers that has not been already written? The title answers the question: this book focuses exclusively on cities confronted with terrorism, on their vulnerabilities and on their resilience. From the start, the author acknowledges that terrorism is a thorny subject. How to define it? The author borrows his definition from the Rand-MIPT-TKB: 'Terrorism is defined by the nature of the act, not by the identity of the perpetrators or the nature of the cause. Terrorism is violence, or the threat of violence calculated to create an atmosphere of fear and alarm.... The fear created by terrorists may be intended to cause people to exaggerate the strengths of the terrorist and the importance of the cause, to provoke governmental overreaction, to discourage dissent, or simply to intimidate and thereby enforce compliance with the demands' (p. xiv).