Eli Berman's insight featured in The Montreal Gazette
Do-gooder terrorism
06/04/2010
Leonard Stern,
The Montreal Gazette
You'd think that military strategists and political scientists would have a lock on the field of terrorism studies. Not so.
Many people didn't have a clue what to make of 9/11, for example, but Richard Landes, a Boston University historian trained in medieval Christianity, recognized what was going on because he was an expert in millennialism.
And then there's Philip Carl Salzman, the McGill University anthropologist whose groundbreaking research on tribal societies explains how violent groups in the Muslim world evolve out of a culture that specializes in inventing external enemies and then unifying against them.
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Professor Berman is the Research Director for International Security Studies at the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
