“Atran explores the way terrorists think of themselves and teaches us, at last, intelligent ways to think about terrorists.” —Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Middle East Editor and author of Securing the City Talking to the Enemy by Scott Atran is an eye-opening and important book that offers readers a startling look deep inside terror groups. Based on the author’s unprecedented access to and in-depth interviews with terrorists and jihadis—including Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Taliban extremists, as well as members of other radical Islamic terror organizations—Talking to the Enemy provides fresh insight and unexpected answers to why there are people in this world willing to kill and die for a cause. A riveting, compelling work in the tradition of The Looming Tower and Terror in the Name of God, Talking to the Enemy is required reading for anyone interested in making the world a safer, more secure place for everyone.
Atran Scott Bücher
Scott Atran ist ein Anthropologe, dessen Werk sich mit den komplexen Schnittstellen von Terrorismus, Gewalt und Religion beschäftigt. Er erforscht die psychologischen und evolutionären Wurzeln dieser Phänomene, oft durch umfangreiche Feldforschung mit verschiedenen Gruppen. Atran versucht zu verstehen, wie Glaubenssysteme und Ideologien menschliches Verhalten prägen und liefert Einblicke, die auch breitere Fragen der menschlichen Kognition und Gesellschaft berühren.
