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标题：The Geography of International Terrorism: An Introduction to Spaces and Places of Violent Non-State Groups. By Richard M. Medina and George F. Hepner. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4398-8686-1. Maps. Photographs. Sources cite. Index. Pp. xiii, 244. $79.95.
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作者：Mark Roberts
期刊名称：Journal of Strategic Security
印刷版ISSN：1944-0464
电子版ISSN：1944-0472
出版年度：2013
卷号：6
期号：4
出版社：Henley-Putnam University
摘要：Into the crowded arena of books on terrorism comes a novel methodology that helps the reader better grapple with the realities faced by homeland security, intelligence, and law enforcement professionals as they seek to understand terrorist thought and evolution. Authors Medina and Hepner are university geography professors who've utilized Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze their topic. In so doing, they've brought a fresh approach to a topic covered ad nauseum in the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and provided a new optic through which to view terrorism. The authors posit that much of the analysis regarding terrorism has centered on military or state security, thereby bypassing a more holistic examination of terrorism that incorporates the economic, social, environmental, anthropological, psychological, cultural and traditional factors. In so doing, such analyses fail to consider factors such as ethnicity, religion, geography, and natural resources into the "why" behind a given group's terrorist motivations. Although terrorists inhabit a geographic space, their motivations are geopolitical and psychological as well