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Title Understanding and influencing public support for insurgency and terrorism / Paul K. Davis [and others].

Publication Info. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 232 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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Series Rand Corporation monograph series
Rand Corporation monograph series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Drawing on social science and particularly social movement theory, presents and tests empirically a conceptual model of public support for insurgency and terrorism and discusses how it can inform counterinsurgency and counterterrorism strategy.
Contents Introduction -- A Conceptual Model -- The Case of al-Qa'ida -- Public Support for the Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan -- Public Support for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey -- Public Support for the Maoists in Nepal -- Comparisons and Implications for Analysis of Strategy -- Appendix: Polling on Public Support for Terrorism in the Islamic World.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed Jan. 25, 2013).
Subject Qaida (Organization) -- Public opinion.
Taliban -- Public opinion.
Partiya KarkerĂȘn KurdistanĂȘ -- Public opinion.
Terrorism -- Public opinion -- Case studies.
Insurgency -- Public opinion -- Case studies.
Nepal -- History -- Civil War, 1996-2006 -- Public opinion.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Terrorism.
Added Author Davis, Paul K., 1943-
Other Form: Print version: Understanding and influencing public support for insurgency and terrorism. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012 9780833058690 (DLC) 2012028228
ISBN 9780833058775 (electronic bk.)
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