Mia Bloom
Bombshell
The book relates to the changing nature of terrorism and how different groups are either being forced or recruited into these deadly organizations.
I address several underlying theories about the nature of political violence and how organizations mobilize and recruit populations to become involved.
Editor: Erind Pajo
Bombshell
Mia Bloom Bombshell: Women and Terrorism University of Pennsylvania Press 320 pages, 6 x 9 inches ISBN 978 0812243901
Available here →November 28, 2011
20111128-bloom-mia-on-bombshell-women-terrorism-2
The wide angle
The rest of this thread
Mick Quinn, Dublin
Mia Bloom
Mia Mellissa Bloom is an Associate professor in International and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University and a fellow at the International Center for the Study of Terrorism. She is the author of Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror, Living Together After Ethnic Killing with Roy Licklider, and Bombshell: Women and Terrorism. Bloom is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has held research or teaching appointments at Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, and McGill Universities. She has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, a Masters in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a Bachelors from McGill University in Russian and Middle East Studies and speaks nine languages.
Pull this thread
A terrorist group that must coerce its women is a weak group.
Know something the rest of us don't?
Most threads on Rorotoko begin with our invitation. Any thread can begin with a proposal: you write it with the same prompts every thread answers, and we review it.
Propose a thread →