The socio-cultural underpinnings of terrorist psychology: When hatred is bred in the bone

Root Causes of Terrorism: Myths, Reality and Ways Forward

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 54-69

  Post, Jerrold M ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203337653     Document Type: Chapter

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