Counterterrorism Policy and the Political Process

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 329-337

  Crenshaw, Martha ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85015105415     PISSN: 1057610X     EISSN: 15210731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/105761001750434204     Document Type: Article

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11. Falkenrath, F “Problems of Preparedness,” p. 162, who says that the military see this role as a distraction from their core mission.
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19. See his chapter, “Taking vows: The domestication of policy-making in hostage incidents,” in Origins of Terrorism, edited by Walter Reich (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center and Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 238-239.
20. U.S. Senate, Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Aviation, The Anti-Hijacking Act of 1971. Hearings. 92nd Cong., 2d sess., 1972.