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This chapter looks at political impetuses for response and highlights how countering terrorism is but one consideration of states in a complex web of inter-related responsibilities. It also points to the propaganda value of particular kinds of response to terrorism and how and why the states we have addressed in our case studies have put ‘message sending’ ahead of effective counter-terrorism in some instances.
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McConaghy, K. (2017). Political Impetus for the Response to Terrorism. In: Terrorism and the State. Rethinking Political Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57267-7_8
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