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Author Miller, Abraham

Title Terrorism and Hostage Negotiations
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (153 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 INTRODUCTION: INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, A TYPE OF WARFARE -- Terrorism and Democracy -- Terrorism and the United Nations -- Terrorism: The Operation of Context -- 2 NEGOTIATIONS FOR HOSTAGES: IMPLICATIONS FROM THE POLICE EXPERIENCE -- Introduction: The Case of the Hanafi Muslims -- Hostage Negotiation Policy: Foreign and Domestic -- The Tactical Response of the Police -- The Motivation for Capitulation: Implications for Negotiation -- The Value of Negotiation -- Negotiation and Political Climate -- Negotiations as Ritual -- 3 HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS AND THE PROBLEM OF TRANSFERENCE -- Introduction -- How It Came About -- The Process of Transference -- Transference as a Function of Other Variables -- The Stockholm Syndrome -- Transference and Hostage Negotiation Perspectives -- Who Are The Hostage Takers? -- Who Are The Hostages? -- What Are The Demands and on Whom Are They Being Made? -- Hostage Coping -- Hostage Coping: The Mass Public -- 4 SWAT (SPECIAL WEAPONS AND TACTICS): THE TACTICAL LINK IN HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS -- Introduction -- The Philosophy of SWAT -- Hostage Negotiators as SWAT Members -- Implications of the Division of Labor -- Other Conflicts and Means to Avoid Them -- Recruitment and Training -- SWAT Training and Its Implications for Negotiation Procedures -- Tactical Procedures -- Problems Facing SWAT -- SWAT and the Media -- SWAT as Publicity and Fad -- Appendix: Tactical Procedures -- Basic Elements -- 5 TERRORISM AND THE MEDIA: A DILEMMA -- Introduction -- Acknowledging the Problem -- Constraints on Solution -- The Problems of Media Intrusion and Media Depiction -- 6 TERRORISM AND GOVERNMENT POLICY -- Introduction -- Controlling the Public Agenda -- Ignoring the Domestic Consequences -- Dr. Kupperman: A Voice in the Wilderness -- Poverty from Success
Success May Be Fleeting -- The Policy Implications of Complacency -- 7 CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index
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ISBN 9781000242508
1000242501