Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill

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Terror in the Name of God examines terrorist violence and particularly how religion is used as its motivation and justification. Based on her vast scholarship and extensive personal interviews, Stern provides unprecedented insight into the organizations that are essential to terrorist action, and concludes with insights into how terrorism might most effectively be countered--and why war is perhaps the worst solution we could choose.

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"A significant addition to a growing shelf of timely books on terrorism." -- Christian Science Monitor "Stern's firsthand encounters bring a valuable and much-needed perspective to the problem of religious violence." -- Publishers Weekly "Timely and compelling." -- Booklist "Wise and Thorough." -- Christopher Dickey, Newsweek

Author Bio

Jessica Stern, the foremost U.S. expert on terrorism, is a lecturer at Harvard University''s Kennedy School of Government and a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 1994 to 1995, she served as director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council; from 1998 to 1999, she was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and from 1995 to 1996, she was a National Fellow at Stanford University''s Hoover Institution. She lives in Cambridge, MA.