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Dying to Win: the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
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The commonly accepted interpretation is that a religious motive—the desire to please God—is the principal reason why people volunteer for suicide missions. American political scientist Robert A. Pape rejects this view. For him the common thread linking suicide bombers is a political objective— driving out an occupier from one’s homeland, which they see as furthering the common good of their society. In arriving at this theory, Pape relied on the concept of “altruistic suicide,” developed by French sociologist Emile Durkheim in his pioneering work Suicide (1897). These ideas are discussed in Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (2005), from which the passage below is taken.
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- Authors
- Pape, R. A.
- Venue
- The Theory and Practice of Islamic Terrorism
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 129-132
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- W1486226362
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- 435.83
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- Language
- en
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