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How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns Hardcover – September 13, 2009

by Audrey Kurth Cronin (Author)
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Why every terrorist movement comes to an end―and how this history can help us combat today's terrorist threats

Amid the fear following 9/11 and other recent terror attacks, it is easy to forget the most important fact about terrorist campaigns: they always come to an end―and often far more quickly than expected. Contrary to what many assume, when it comes to dealing with terrorism it may be more important to understand how it ends than how it begins. Only by understanding the common ways in which terrorist movements have died out or been eradicated in the past can we hope to figure out how to speed the decline of today's terrorist groups, while avoiding unnecessary fears and costly overreactions. In How Terrorism Ends, Audrey Kurth Cronin examines how terrorist campaigns have met their demise over the past two centuries, and applies these enduring lessons to outline a new strategy against al-Qaeda.

This book answers questions such as: How long do terrorist campaigns last? When does targeting the leadership finish a group? When do negotiations lead to the end? Under what conditions do groups transition to other forms of violence, such as insurgency or civil war? How and when do they succeed or fail, and then disappear? Examining a wide range of historical examples―including the anti-tsarist Narodnaya Volya, the Provisional IRA, Peru's Shining Path, Japan's Aum Shinrikyo, and various Palestinian groups―Cronin identifies the ways in which almost all terrorist groups die out, including decapitation (catching or killing the leader), negotiation, repression, and implosion.

How Terrorism Ends is the only comprehensive book on its subject and a rarity among all the books on terrorism―at once practical, optimistic, rigorous, and historical.

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  1. Print length
    336 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Princeton University Press
  4. Publication date
    September 13, 2009
  5. Dimensions
    6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0691139482
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0691139487
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  • Joshua Dulaney
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Company
    Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024
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    Book arrived on time and in fantastic condition. Exactly how described. Great Company. Would recommend purchasing from them.
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  • Randall
    5.0 out of 5 stars Top-notch analysis on the endings of terrorist groups
    Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2014
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    This is a serious book, aimed at graduate students and policy-makers. That being said, it is a fantastic book for those who need to think about how to end terrorist organizations. Dr. Cronin does an excellent job in breaking a very complex international phenomenon into some understandable categories. Her analysis of the six end states of terrorist organizations will define the discourse for years to come. To get a good overview of the book, look up her presentation she gave about this book at George Mason University, available on Vimeo.
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  • Michael Griswold
    4.0 out of 5 stars In Presidents We Trust
    Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2016
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    Audrey Kurth Cronin in How Terrorism Ends argues that all terrorism ends through one of six methods. While this conclusion may be heartening for those of us who find terrorism absolutely detestable, there is a major catch. Some terrorism is ended through decapitation, while other is simply repressed, while other terrorism mutates into other areas. This goes on for most of the six means of decreasing and/or ending terrorism and cases exist where nation-states employed the wrong tactic of the six and made the situation arguably more dangerous.

    While Cronin’s analysis is helpful, it kind of relies on governments making sound and rational considerations, which in this polarized environment is not a given. Furthermore, one may argue that the book is somewhat outdated or at least needs a good update if one wants to consider ISIS. Also updates on the Russia-Chechen conflict or the LTTE in Sri Lanka would be appreciated. Thus, while I find the analysis heartening, it is not so heartening to think that defeating terrorism relies on a leader making the proper situational read during an emotional time.
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  • Craig C.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource to understand terrorism based on analysis of the historical record
    Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2012
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    This is an excellent resource to understand terrorism based on analysis of the historical record. Many books on terrorism begin with an ideological framed view of the subject. The author has sifted through a large amount of data to make a useful analysis of how terrorism eventually ends. Since terrorism doesn't accomplish the group's aims, the decline seems to be inevitable. To not realize this encourages anti-terrorists to overreact by hyperbole of the the very real threats into existential threats.
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  • Ronald J Saxton
    3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2019
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    Reads like a college paper
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  • E. Holm
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2013
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    Only one word for this book: "AMAZING!" Hard to put down once you start o read it.GReat research and examples provided, and it all makes sense!
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  • Christopher A. Pachana
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Defeat of Terrorism
    Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2012
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    A great book that is easy to read on how terrorism ends. It does end and this book explains how and gives historical examples.
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  • Jason D. Sands
    4.0 out of 5 stars insightful
    Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2014
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    Good book. Cronin calls for us to take a longer term view to how to end terrorist movement and move beyond the action and reaction mode. I think her charge that we are making the same mistake again hat we made in the Cold War, treating the adversary as a monolith, is valid.
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  • John Featherstone
    5.0 out of 5 stars Clear and Succinct Explanations of Complicated Theories
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2014
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    This book met all my requirement cut a path through the definitional problems of 'terrorism' and the author's 'six ways that terrorism ends' if very useful to explain how terrorism sometimes transmorphs into legitimate government, particularly important for my dissertation on EOKA (Cyprus).
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  • andrew pettitt
    4.0 out of 5 stars delivered as advertised
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2015
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    an interesting perspective on the world we live in
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