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... The report does not address domestic, or homeland, aspects of terrorism, which are covered in detail in two National Academ~es reports, Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism (National Research Council, 2002) and Terrorism: Perspectives from the Behavioral and Social Sciences (National Research Council, In press)
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... Moving to broader contexts and conditions, we identify three factors that help explain the rise of terrorism as a form of activity: the great asymmetry of economic, political, and military power in the world; the availability of weapons of mass destruction; and the permeability of world society occasioned by processes of globalization. With respect to political context, terrorism and its supporting audiences appear to be fostered by policies of extreme political repression and discouraged by policies of incorporating both dissident and moderate groups responsibly into civil society and the political process.
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... 10-141. · Direct efforts to deter should therefore be accompanied by working through all available third parties societies hosting terrorist organizations, countries trusted by host societies, or the United States's own allies who may have more credibility with and influence on terrorist organizations than this country, as enemy, does (supporting text, pp.
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... .` general policy approach has to be adaptive, opportunistic, and multisided. The conventional problem-solving logic so attractive In American culture find a problem and then fix it is of limited utility, and a longer term, more contextualized approach iS necessary.
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