Dying to win
by Robert Anthony Pape, Robert Pape, Robert A Pape · first published 2005
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Suicide terrorism is rising around the world, but there is great confusion as to why. In this paradigm-shifting analysis, University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape has collected groundbreaking evidence to explain the strategic, social, and individual factors responsible for this growing threat.One of the world's foremost authorities on the subject, Professor Pape has created the first comprehensive database of every suicide terrorist attack in the world from 1980 until today. With striking clarity and precision, Professor Pape uses this unprecedented research to debunk widely held
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This has actually been studied: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Win:_The_Strategic_Log... http://www.amazon.com/Dying-Win-Strategic-Suicide-Terrorism/... TL;DR People do not run kamikaze attacks against other people for being less religiously conservative than they…
on “Bradley Manning leaked Granai Airstrike "~86-147, mostly women and children"” ↗You might find Robert A. Pape's "Dying to Win" an interesting refutation of your post. > While the motivation of individual terrorists is quite diverse, and some do actually want foreign influence out of holy sites, the overwhelming force behind…
Religion is a pretense for violence, not the original motivation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pape#Dying_to_Win Human power structures are what you should fear. A human in a powerful position will be motivated to silence voices that threaten that power.
on “Bangladesh blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death” ↗…well be both wrong. Maybe bin laden did just hate us, and maybe that doesnt matter, because his little empire was built on a different message that he could convince people it was worth dying for. In Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, Robert Pape shows that all suicide bombings from 1980 to 2005 were the result of a people being occupied. I am not convinced that anyone actually wants conflict,…
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