Counterterror Offensives for the Ghost War World

Richard J. Chasdi is associate professor in the Department of Management at Walsh College.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Chapter 1—An Introduction to Counterterror Concepts and MethodsChapter 3 Chapter 2—The Contours of Counterterror Practices: Approaches and Actions, What is Known and Gaps in Knowledge, a Functional Typology of Counterterror EventsChapter 4 Chapter 3—Theoretical Conceptualizations and MethodologyChapter 5 Chapter 4—The Case of Counterterror in Western Style Liberal Democracies: Basic Contours of the Counterterror Practices of Four Nation-StatesChapter 6 Chapter 5—The Case of Counterterror in Authoritarian Democracies and an Authoritarian Regime: Basic Contours of the Counterterror Practices of Three Nation-StatesChapter 7 Chapter 6—Analysis of the Effects of Two Structural Explanatory Factors on Counterterror Event OutcomesChapter 8 Chapter 7—ConclusionsChapter 9 Methodological Appendices

Dr. Richard J. Chasdi’s most recent book, Counterterror Offensives for the Ghost World War, provides a historical and analytical look at patterns, relationships, and effectiveness in counterterror practice. Chasdi’s well-researched, 877-page effort provides several significant theoretical and analytical contributions. Bottom line: the text is both a good read and reference. ... Counterterror provides an excellent basis for analysis and is in itself a sufficient reason to read this text. ... Counterterror provides a deluge of descriptive and inferential statistics in the form of frequency tables, bar graphs, contingency table analysis, and negative binomial regression models. The vast majority of the book is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of these results, making it mostly a quantitative contribution. ... In balance, Dr. Chasdi provides three major contributions in Counterterror. He provides a conceptual framework that makes sense. He provides detailed statistical analysis that is useful to both modeling and understanding counterterror considerations. And he provides reasonable analysis of interactions and relationships among factors. In balance, the text is a worthwhile read and reference.