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| | Foreign Affairs - Book Review - Dealing with Terrorism: Stick or Carrot? - Bruno S. Frey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Frey, a Swiss economist, provides a systematic account of what economists and other social scientists have to say about the motivations for and dynamics of terrorism, largely in a "rational actor" framework in which all individuals-whether business officials, politicians, bureaucrats, police officers, or terrorists-are assumed to act in ways that benefit themselves and their causes. |
 | | Frey argues that the existing approach to terrorism, almost exclusively through deterrence, is not alone likely to be effective. |
 | | This approach will seem too mechanical to some readers, but Frey provides a useful compilation of the arguments and evidence, pro and con, for various strategies for dealing with terrorism. |
| www.foreignaffairs.org /20050101fabook84124/bruno-s-frey/dealing-with-terrorism-stick-or-carrot.html?mode=print (158 words) |
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