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• W237572749 abstract "MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism, by Daniel Byman. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, xi + 311 pages. Map. Appendix to p. 333. Bibl. to p. 357. Index to p. 369. $30. Anyone brave or foolish enough to wrestle with contentious issue of of is immediately confronted by obstacles. The first is problem that has long corrupted research in field: frequently imprecise, partisan, and indeed propagandistic uses of terms such as terrorism and state sponsorship. The second is question of whether, in an era when transnational terrorist networks operating in far-flung regions are increasingly dominating headlines, traditional ways of thinking about of have become outmoded, i.e., an example of old-think (p. 2). Although Georgetown University professor Daniel Byman has not managed to resolve all of thorny issues related to his chosen topic, he deserves credit both for not ignoring these problems and for helping to clarify various matters that have often not been given adequate consideration. Byman's focus herein is on the nexus between terrorist groups and sponsors (p. 8), and he defines as a government's intentional to terrorist group to help it use violence, bolster its political activities, or sustain [its] organization (p. 10). Although this focus on active support for non-state terrorist groups precludes consideration of acts of carried out directly by security forces of particular states, he later devotes an entire chapter to passive [state] sponsors who deliberately turn blind eye to activities of terrorists in their countries but do not provide direct assistance (p. 13). Indeed, entire middle portion of his book is devoted to illustrative and intrinsically interesting case studies of of (Iran, Syria, Pakistan, and Taliban's Afghanistan). The first and last portions of Deadly Connections are instead more theoretical and/or policy-oriented. In chapter 1, he rightly emphasizes that there are several types of sponsorship of and offers typology of four categories of support: strong supporters are states with both desire and capacity to support terrorist groups; weak supporters are those with desire but not capacity to offer significant support; lukewarm supporters are those that offer rhetorical but little actual tangible support; and antagonistic supporters are those that actually seek to control or even weaken terrorist groups they appear to be supporting (p. 5). In chapter 2, he correctly notes that [understanding motivations is vital both for predicting when might support terrorist group and for determining how to end this backing (p. 21 ), and he goes on to identify three primary motivations that lead states to risk supporting terrorist groups: reasons, above all to weaken or destabilize rival regimes; reasons, especially to export their doctrines or political systems; and reasons, in particular to gain popular support by aiding oppressed kinsmen (p. 32). In chapter 3, he argues that states provide six types of support to terrorists: training and operations; money, arms, and logistics; diplomatic backing; organizational assistance; ideological direction; and (perhaps most importantly) sanctuary (p. 59). He concludes, perhaps unjustifiably, that terrorist groups that receive significant amounts of support are far more difficult to counter and destroy than those that do not. Later, Byman addresses complex issue of how to stop of terrorism. In chapter 9, he argues that states which support are difficult to deter, either because they have already calculated that strategic benefits of sponsoring terrorist groups outweigh potential costs - inasmuch as sponsoring is often perceived as vital to their own geopolitical or domestic interests but is not usually viewed as an outright act of war by states that are victimized - or because they are ideologically driven to do so in spite of those costs. …" @default.
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