Global alert: the rationality of modern Islamist terrorism and the challenge to the liberal democratic world

This title describes the motivations leading to modern Islamist terrorism and the different stages in the execution of a terrorist attack.

Challenging the certainty that liberal democratic values offer an antidote to radicalism, the book exposes the exploitation of democratic institutions by terrorists to further their goals and confronts the difficulty democracies face in fighting terrorism, especially when international humanitarian law does not account for non-state actors in armed conflict.