How Is Terrorism Changing Us? Threat Perception and Political Attitu
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How is Terrorism Changing Us?
Threat Perception and Political Attitudes in the Age of Terror
How Is Terrorism Changing Us?
Matteo Vergani
How Is Terrorism Changing Us? Threat Perception and Political Attitudes in the Age of Terror
Matteo Vergani Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation Deakin University Burwood, VIC, Australia
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To those who feel threatened by terrorism.
Foreword
Terrorism, by definition, is intended to change us. The violence associated with terrorism might appear to be gratuitous but it is not mindless; rather it is intended to provoke response. The real power of terrorism lies in its capacity to leverage change. Terrorists engage in outrageous violence because they need our outrage, not for its own sake but because of how it makes us respond. Nowhere is this principle more clearly demonstrated than in the 9/11 attacks of 2001. As Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes famously observed in their 2008 book The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq, the $500,000 spent by the 19 terrorists on operational costs delivered a spectacular return on investment because of how we chose to respond. Criticized by some for exaggerating the cost of the conflict, a decade on, following the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the des
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