Christoph Reuter's scientific contributions
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Publication (1)
MY LIFE IS A WEAPON: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing Christoph Renter Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. viii, 200pp, 115524.95 cloth (ISBN 0-691-11759-4)What kind of person becomes a suicide bomber? Why are suicide bombings currently so pervasive? And what, if anything, can be done to fight this phenomenon? These are the central ques...
Citations
... Between the end of World War II and the Iranian revolution, there were no suicide attacks in the world. Yet only months after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini solidified power and formed the Pasdaran and Basij, suicide attacks began to appear in conflicts involving Shiites (Lebanon, the Iran-Iraq war) and then took root among Palestinian Sunni groups (Reuter, 2002). Prominent examples include the female participants in the campaign waged by the FLN during the Battle of Algiers in the late 1950s and early 1960s; the terror campaigns of the Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and the Italian Red Brigades in Italy from the 1970s to the mid-1980s; and the Palestinian hijackings at the end of the 1960s to the mid-1970s (Schweitzer, 2006). ...
