Evaluating Counterterrorism Performance

This book offers a new model for measuring the success and impact of counterterrorism strategies, using four comparative historical case studies.

Auteur

Beatrice de Graaf is a Historian and Associate Professor at the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism at Leiden University, Netherlands.

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. The Dutch Approach': Restrained and fragmented 3. The Federal Republic of Germany: Democracy Under Fire 4. Counterterrorism in the United States: Countering Subversives, Revolutionaries and Communists 5. Counterterrorism in Italy: Deception or Mismanagement? 6. The performative Power of Counterterrorism 7. Police Practice as Signifier 8. Intelligence Signifiers 9. Terrorists on Trial: The Courtroom as Stage 10. The 'Performance' of Counterterrorism Policy