- Hardcover: 327 pages
- Publisher: Columbia University Press (30 Jun 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0231154186
- ISBN-13: 978-0231154185
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,698,736 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan (and, for a while, Iraq) has seen the publication of a wide range of books attempting to answer the question: 'how do we end this war'. 'Talking to Terrorists' is, tangentially, one of the most interesting of these books, offering a detailed account from Northern Ireland and the Basque experience. It isn't directly tied into Afghanistan or any other conflicts, but that is one of the book's strengths. I only hope that when someone one day writes a book about the peace process in Afghanistan it is half as thorough as this book.
The book does caution against drawing parallels between different circumstances -- everything is local, after all -- but the fact that even a brief read in the book will remind you of what is happening with international policy towards the Taliban at the moment is an indicator that there are at least lessons to be learnt here: ending political stalemate in the greater Kandahar area at the moment should be the single priority of any efforts to find `a solution', but doing so from a point of strategic bankruptcy will inevitably be to the detriment of everyone's long-term future.
As such, 'Talking to Terrorists: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country' is an absolute must-read for policy-makers who see a future (or an end-game) in the possibility of some sort of negotiated settlement with the Taliban.
The book does caution against drawing parallels between different circumstances -- everything is local, after all -- but the fact that even a brief read in the book will remind you of what is happening with international policy towards the Taliban at the moment is an indicator that there are at least lessons to be learnt here: ending political stalemate in the greater Kandahar area at the moment should be the single priority of any efforts to find `a solution', but doing so from a point of strategic bankruptcy will inevitably be to the detriment of everyone's long-term future.
As such, 'Talking to Terrorists: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country' is an absolute must-read for policy-makers who see a future (or an end-game) in the possibility of some sort of negotiated settlement with the Taliban.
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Beware of magic formulas
30 Jan 2010
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The authors do their best to explode the recent myth that negotiating with terrorists is a magic solution to political problems. They do this by reviewing the history of interaction between the British government and the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland from 1975 through the Good Friday Agreement and Basque terrorists in Spain. Their prosaic conclusion is that negotiations with terrorists only work when the situation is ripe for the terrorists to deal--usually after they have been sufficiently frustrated in achieving their ends. Negotiating or even talking to terrorists before then can actually be counterproductive and strengthen their resolve. I didn't read the portion dealing with the ETA. The authors include the son of one of Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble's closest advisors, a Spanish journalist who also worked in Northern Ireland, and a third specialist on terrorism.
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