Suicide Terrorism, Ami Pedahzur, Cambridge: Polity, 2005, pp.
264.
With the issue of terrorism continuing to dominate media reports,
there are renewed calls for a better understanding of the most deadly
weapon employed by these organizations: suicide bombing. Ami Pedahzur, in
his book Suicide Terrorism, successfully meets this challenge
head on. It has long been accepted by those who study this issue that
suicide terrorism has been a potent tool both for making grandiose public
statements and as a means of engaging militarily superior opponents or
difficult targets. Pedahzur outlines various methods, including historical
tracing and the analysis of case studies, to further the understanding of
this issue as well as the academic debate which surrounds it.