Totalitarianism, Terrorism and Supreme Values History and Theory
Applying a rational choice perspective, this book presents a dynamic theory of the evolution of totalitarian regimes and terrorism. By demonstrating that totalitarian regimes rest on ideologies involving supreme values that are assumed to be absolutely tr
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Peter Bernholz
Totalitarianism, Terrorism and Supreme Values History and Theory
Studies in Public Choice Volume 33
Series editor Randall G. Holcombe, Tallahassee, USA Founding Editor Gordon Tullock, Fairfax, VA, USA
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Peter Bernholz
Totalitarianism, Terrorism and Supreme Values History and Theory
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Peter Bernholz Center for Economics and Business (WWZ) University of Basel Basel Switzerland
ISSN 0924-4700 Studies in Public Choice ISBN 978-3-319-56906-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56907-9
ISBN 978-3-319-56907-9
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Preface
Presently each day mass media are filled with news concerning new atrocities of the “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and the Levant, of Boko Haram in Nigeria and the Taliban in Afghanistan: murders of Christians, Shiites and Yesidi, abduction of girls and women, suicides by true believers in these Islamic creeds, destruction of cultural monuments in Assyria and Palmyra. It seems that a new type of religiously motivated violence has erupted, beginning with the destruction of the Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington on 9/11 in 2001 by adherents of Al Qaeda. But are such events really new? And does no similarity exist with the mass murders committed by Nazi and Bolshevik regimes during the first half of the twentieth century? Or with the Christian Crusaders wading in the blood of Moslems and Jews when they conquered Jerusalem in 1099? Had all these terrible events nothing to do with the fact that
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