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Colonel Kir Jerdev, a member of Russia's Elite Special Forces, has been sent with a small task force to recover twelve biological weapons from a secret laboratory hidden in the Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains. Colonel Jerdev betrays his country and his honor when he makes a deal with the Russian Mafia to sell the weapons to an Islamic terrorist group. The Russian’s only option is to transport the weapons across the Balkins to the Adriatic Sea and a waiting boat. Blocked by a raging battle between Serbian and Muslim forces, Colonel Jerdev is forced to hide the weapons in a limestone cave deep in Serbia's Dinaric Alps before he is captured by the Serbs. Serbian General Alexis Zogovic is about to realize his dream of wealth, power and revenge against the Americans who destroyed his beloved Serbia. All that stands in the general's way is a young CIA officer on her first assignment. For the hardened veteran of Serbia's bloody "ethnic cleansing," one young female CIA agent should not pose a problem.
In this timely multidimensional study, historian Jouni Suistola and psychoanalyst Vamik D. Volkan draw on their respective disciplines and their own personal and professional experiences to investigate the historical and psychological roots of terrorism. Specifically, what is it in human nature that allows people to terrorize and kill the other, and what societal factors—whether political, economic, or religious—lead to terrorism? And, in turn, how might terrorist ideologies and groups be defeated, especially when a society's realistic fears are contaminated with xenophobia, racism, and fantasized dangers? Focusing specifically on modern-day radical Islamist terrorism, the authors argue that studying the minds of individual terrorists can tell us something about those individuals, but that only by examining the deeper historical, political, and society-wide psychological processes at work will we be able to uncover the core causes of terrorism. Only through such understanding, they conclude, will the world be positioned to prevent further radicalization and create lasting and peaceful solutions to the seemingly intractable problem of terrorist violence.
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