Introduction : experience in prevention / Barnett R. Rubin with Susanna P. Campbell -- Nationalism and civic identity : ethnic models for Macedonia and Kosovo / Steven L. Burg -- Learning from Burundi's failed democratic transition, 1993-96 : did international initiatives match the problem? /...

Contents: 1. Introduction and overview -- Part 1: Getting the questions right -- 2: Targets and perpetrators of transnational terrorist attacks -- 3: Why suicide terrorists get educated -- 4: Aid and military intervention in a model of delegated protection -- Part 2: Empirical answers -- 5:...

Emphasising a positive approach to dealing with terrorism (the carrot), this book provides a critique of deterrence policy (the stick) which can be ineffective and even counterproductive, and proposes three alternative and effective anti-terrorist policies: Decentralisation reduces vulnerability...