A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism - Byman, Daniel (Professor, Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Chevy Chase MD/Washington DC) - Libros - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780199931781 - 13 de junio de 2013
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A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism

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In the sixty-plus years of the Jewish state's existence, Israeli governments have exhausted almost every option in defending their country against terror attacks. Israel has survived and even thrived-but both its citizens and its Arab neighbors have paid dearly. In A High Price, Daniel Byman breaks down the dual myths of Israeli omnipotence and-conversely-ineptitude in fighting terror, offering instead a nuanced, definitive historical account of the state's bold but often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, the book chronicles different periods of Israeli counterterrorism. In surveying Israel's response to terror, the author points to the coups of shadowy Israeli intelligence services, the much-emulated use of defensive measures such as sky marshals on airplanes, and the role of controversial techniques such as targeted killings and the security barrier that separates Israel from Palestinian areas. Equally instructive are the shortcomings that have undermined Israel's counterterrorism goals, including a disregard for long-term planning and a failure to recognizethe long-term political repercussions of counterterrorism tactics. Israel is often a laboratory: new terrorist techniques are often used against it first, and Israel in turn develops innovative countermeasures that other states copy. A High Price expertly explains how Israel's successes and failures can serve to inform all countries fighting terrorism today.


480 pages, 21 b/w halftone; 2 b/w line

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 13 de junio de 2013
ISBN13 9780199931781
Editores Oxford University Press Inc
Páginas 488
Dimensiones 145 × 226 × 32 mm   ·   592 g
Lengua Inglés  

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