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"Holcomb's memoir provides detailed information about the FBI that only a long time bureau insider can reveal such as prison conditions and interrogation techniques in Guantánamo and Afghanistan"--Jacket

This article establishes the prevalence of deterrence over preemption when targeted governments can choose between either policies or employ both. There is a similar proclivity to favor defensive counter-terrorist measures over proactive policies. Unfortunately, this predisposition results in an equilibrium with socially inferior payoffs when compared with proactive responses. Proactive policies tend to provide purely public benefits to all potential targets and are usually undersupplied, whereas defensive policies tend to yield a strong share of provider-specific benefits and are often oversupplied. When terrorists direct a disproportionate number of attacks at one government, its reliance on defensive measures can disappear. Ironically, terrorists can assist governments in addressing coordination dilemmas associated with some antiterrorist policies by targeting some countries more often than others.

"Niger: Armed Force Politics and Counterterrorism" published on by Oxford University Press.

THE AUTHOR EXAMINES ASPECTS OF COUNTERTERRORISM AS COUNTERINSURGENCY, INCLUDING THE EXCEPTIONAL NATURE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION, INTERNAL SURVEILLANCE, PRE-EMPTIVE CONTROLS, AND MEDIA MANAGEMENT.

1. Introduction -- 2. The 'Dutch approach' : restrained and fragmented -- 3. The Federal Republic of Germany : democracy under fire -- 4. Counterterrorism in the United States : countering subversives, revolutionaries and communists -- 5. Counterterrorism in Italy : deception or mismanagement? -- 6. The performative power of counterterrorism -- 7. Police practice as signifier -- 8. Intelligence signifiers -- 9. Terrorists on trial : the courtroom as stage -- 10. The 'performance' of counterterrorism policy.

An array of methods are used in European cities to respond to terrorism, with counterterrorism infrastructures in the built environment receiving particular academic interest. Yet the significance of imaginations of city spaces are often overlooked in studies of counterterrorism planning. Counterterrorism workshops influence imaginations of urban spaces by encouraging participants to adopt an anticipatory security gaze. This article explores the spatial approach of workshops, which require participants to interpret cities as a series of spaces and locations that could be terror targets. This article proposes that encouraging imaginations of danger in urban spaces can evoke fear, itself an aim of terrorism, or even neurosis, which becomes spatially attached to urban spaces as a means of urban counterterrorism governance.