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Terrorism by Charles Townshend
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it was ok
bookshelves: non-fiction, sociopolitical, very-short-intros

This is a limited account of terrorism. I think it should have been written by someone with a STEM degree, particularly someone with understanding of probability and statistics. It is heavy on the history and international relations, but, for example, there isn't statistics on how many terrorist attacks have occurred and so on. As expected, there is a downplaying of Islamic terrorism, which is disproportionately very high, and there are serious problems in every continent. It doesn't understand that religious terrorism is of a fundamentally different nature to political terrorism; political situations can change, but holy books generally don't. It even makes the argument that terrorism isn't a big problem in terms of people killed, not realising that terrorism is a fat-tailed phenomenon; terrorists are actively trying to kill large swathes of people whereas lawnmowers aren't, and we take strict precautions against terrorism but not lawnmowers.
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Reading Progress

June 6, 2018 – Shelved
June 6, 2018 – Shelved as: to-read
June 6, 2018 – Shelved as: non-fiction
June 6, 2018 – Shelved as: sociopolitical
June 7, 2018 – Started Reading
June 10, 2018 – Shelved as: very-short-intros
June 10, 2018 – Finished Reading

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