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Title: Don't bother with it
Review: If you were only to read the first chapter, where Wieviorka explains his psychology-based theory on the evolution of terroism, this book would seem like an excellent source on the psychology of terrorists. Unfortunately, the rest of the book only serves to validate a hidden agenda. Reading closely, you find that the theory he so carefully lays out in Part 1 is used throughout the case study analysis to invalidate the groups being studied as "terrorist organizations." -- in short, he says that they're not terrorists because they don't match his psychological work-up of terrorist groups. These groups include: Hizbollah, PLO, ETA, and RAF/Red Brigades
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