Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know Audiobook (Free)

Terrorism is among the traveling geopolitical tendencies of our era. Spectacular events are acknowledged by their dates-for example, the 9/11 episodes in New York and Washington and the 7/7 London bombings. It was a terrorist strike that drew the United States into a battle in the higher Middle East that has lasted over fifteen years. Many other attacks, including those in non-Western countries, receive far less attention even though they might be more regular and cumulatively trigger more casualties.

In about Terrorism: What Everyone Must Know Terrorism: What Everyone Must Know®, Todd Sandler, among America’s leading scholars on the topic, provides a broad and example-rich summary of this perennially important issue. After obviously defining terrorism, he then discusses terrorism’s causes, the type of terrorist groups, how governments seek to counter terrorism, its economic consequences, and the continuing future of terrorism. He focuses, in particular, over the extent to which specific motivations (nationalism/separatism, still left and right extremism, and religious fundamentalism) and general circumstances (poverty, globalization, and routine type) have an effect on the frequency and costs of terrorism. As he points out, researchers haven’t established a connection between poverty and terrorism or between globalization and terrorism. He also identifies a great many other widely-held misconceptions.