Denial of Sanctuary Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens

Subjects:

• Military Studies » Military & Politics

Reviews:

• The author has gathered several of the world's top experts to explore the root causes and consequences associated with the use of sanctuaries by terrorists....essential reading for anyone seeking a better understanding of the role that sanctuaries and safe havens play in the strategy of the international terrorist.
  —Parameters Winter 2007-08
• [D]emonstrates the shortcomings of proposals to attack terrorism at its source when there are so many ways of hiding: in the ungovernable interiors of failed states, in the obscurity of urban London, on the Internet.
  —Foreign Affairs November/December 2007
• Innes presents 11 chapters that challenge conventional understandings of "denying terrorists safe havens" in the post-September 11th environment that are typically framed in strictly geographical terms. The collection is organized in such a manner as to address the following specific problem-sets of denying terrorists sanctuary: the political geography of sanctuary, the political discourse that has structured our understanding of it, al Qaeda and the state, terrorist exploitation of state failure, border security and urban warfare, transnational crime and terrorist finance, national security law, information warfare and virtual havens, diaspora issues, and problems of state-building and reconstruction.
  —Reference & Research Book News August 2007

• Endorsement From William Rosenau, Ph.D
  RAND Corporation Washington Office: Denial of Sanctuary is essential reading for anyone seeking a better understanding of the role of terrorist and insurgent safe havens.
• Endorsement From John Horgan,
  Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence,
  University of St. Andrews: In an age where divisive rhetoric and personal opinion increasingly pass for knowledge and expertise on the nature of terrorism, Michael Innes has assembled what in years to come will be seen as the indispensable contribution to understanding terrorist sanctuary and its implications. In his carefully researched and thought-provoking collection we find terrorism analysis at its very best and essential reading for students, theorists, diplomats and policymakers alike. Simply excellent.
• Endorsement From Ron E. Hassner,
  Assistant professor of political science, UC Berkeley: Denial of Sanctuary offers the first comprehensive glimpse into those cracks between and within states that provide safe refuge for terrorists. Innes takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the liminal realm that has come to capture the attention of students of geopolitics, transnational violence and the modern state. From reflections on counter-sanctuary discourse to first-person reports from inside Afghani military prisons, this volume challenges our preconceptions of terrorist sanctuaries and offers cutting-edge analyses of their military, legal, financial and virtual implications.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Michael F. Scheuer
• Preface
• 1. Cracks in the System: Sanctuary and Terrorism After 9/11
• Michael A. Innes
• 2. Critical Reflections on Counter-Sanctuary Discourse
• Richard Jackson
• 3. Netwar, the Modern Geopolitical Imagination, and the Death of the Civilian
• Colin Flint
• 4. The Failure of al Qaeda Basing Projects from Afghanistan to Iraq
• Brian Glyn Williams
• 5. Constraints and Opportunities in Ungoverned Spaces: The Horn of Africa
• Kenneth J. Menkhaus
• 6. Iraq and the Edges of Terrorist Space
• Alice Hills
• 7. Terrorist Finance and the Criminal Underground
• Rohan Kumar Gunaratna and Arabinda Acharyna
• 8. Legal Sanctuaries and Predator Strikes in the War on Terror
• William C. Banks
• 9. Exploring the Role of Virtual Camps
• Jarret Brachman and James J.F. Forest
• 10. Hiding in Plain Sight in Londonistan
• Jeffrey M. Bale
• 11. From Sanctuaries to Protostates
• Vanda Felbab-Brown
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• About the Editor and Contributors