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[Mark Perry s] writing conveys a strong impression that he has not spent his career merely watching the action from a safe seat in the bleachers...[His] tone calls to mind a Tom Clancy novel. --New Yorker
Why not distinguish between [terrorist] groups and engage in a little diplomacy with those extremists who can in their own way assist in our war on terror? Sounds crazy, perhaps, but Perry demonstrates in his book how a controversial approach to the war on terror may be a path to success in minimizing the terrorist threat. --Washington Post.com
Fascinating and original. --The National (Abu Dhabi)
This is clearly no dry academic exercise but an urgent mission...There is much to be learnt from Perry s discussions with leaders of groups like Hezbollah and Hamas much that one can only hope Western leaders learn very soon...American statesmen and policymakers should read this book, urgently. --Asia Times --Asia Times
Why not distinguish between [terrorist] groups and engage in a little diplomacy with those extremists who can in their own way assist in our war on terror? Sounds crazy, perhaps, but Perry demonstrates in his book how a controversial approach to the war on terror may be a path to success in minimizing the terrorist threat. --Washington Post.com
Fascinating and original. --The National (Abu Dhabi)
This is clearly no dry academic exercise but an urgent mission...There is much to be learnt from Perry s discussions with leaders of groups like Hezbollah and Hamas much that one can only hope Western leaders learn very soon...American statesmen and policymakers should read this book, urgently. --Asia Times --Asia Times
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The peace agreement in Northern Ireland has been held up as a beacon for conflict resolution around the world. The lessons of Ulster have been applied by prime ministers, presidents, diplomats and intelligence agents to many areas of violent conflict, from Spain to Sri Lanka, from Afghanistan to Iraq and, frequently, the Israel-Palestine crisis. From Belfast to Basra, the notion that it is necessary to engage in dialogue with one's enemies has been fetishised across the political spectrum. Talking to terrorists is a necessary pre-requisite to peace, it is argued, and governments should avoid rigid pre-conditions in their attempt to bring in the extremes.But does this understanding really reflect what happened in Northern Ireland? Moreover, does it apply to other areas where democratic governments face threats from terrorist organisations, such as in the Basque region of northern Spain? In challenging this notion, the authors offer ananalytical history of the transition from war to peace in Northern Ireland, and compare the violent conflict in the Basque country over the same period, demonstrating how events there have developed very differently than the advocates of 'the Northern Ireland model' might presume.The authors recognise that governments have often talked to terrorists and will continue to do so in the future. But they argue that what really matters is not the act of talking to terrorists itself but a range of other variables including the role of state actors, intelligence agencies, hard power and the wider democratic process. Above all, there is a crucial difference between talking to terrorists who believe that their strategy is succeeding and those who have been made to realise that their aims are unattainable by violence.
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This review is from: Talking to Terrorists: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country (Crises in World Politics) (Paperback)
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.
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Beware of magic formulas,
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This review is from: Talking to Terrorists: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country (Crises in World Politics) (Hardcover)
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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