Radical, Religious, and Violent by Berman, Eli -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Hallftitle Radical, Religious, and Violent Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Note to Readers 1 Why Are Religious Terrorists So Lethal?

Hezbollah The Taliban Hamas The Lethality of Religious Radicals What Motivates Terrorists? The Afterlife and Other Myths Terrorist Organizations—Why So Few? Internal Economies and Organizational Efficiency What’s Coming?

2 The Defection Constraint

Origins of the Taliban Trade Routes and Defection Coordinated Assault Terrorism and Defection—Hamas The Jewish Underground—Terrorists Who Overreached Hezbollah and Suicide Attacks In Qassem’s telling, secrecy creates a need for careful recruitment: The Mahdi Army in Iraq

Prohibitions and Sacrifices—the Benign Puzzles Where Are the Dads? Mutual Aid Prohibitions and Clubs Evidence Fertility Pronatalist Prohibitions Radical Islam and Fertility

4 Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice

Subsidized Sacrifice Madrassas Subsidized Prohibitions and Fertility How Many Radical Islamists? Recap

5 The Hamas Model: Why Religious Radicals Are Such Effective Terrorists

The “Hamas Model” Origins of the Model Hamas Social Service Provision by the Taliban, Hezbollah, and al-Sadr Why Religious Radicals Are Such Lethal Terrorists Terrorist Clubs Evidence When Terrorists Fail Clubs and Violence without Religion Gratuitous Cruelty Objections

6 Why Suicide Attacks?

Rebels, Insurgents, and Terrorists Suicide Attacks Evidence Coreligionists Are Soft Targets Clubs Alternative Explanations The Future of Suicide Attacks?

7 Constructive Counterterrorism

How Terrorist Clubs Succeed Constructive Counterterrorism Coyne describes what happened next: What’s Wrong with the Old-Fashioned Methods? Where to Start? The Malayan Precedent

8 Religious Radicals and Violence in the Modern World

Radical Christians, Benign and Violent The Supernatural and Credibility Markets and Denominations Jewish and Muslim Denominations What’s Wrong with Religion in Government? Competition and Pluralism Not about Us What’s Our Role?

Analytical Appendix Notes References Index