TY  - GEN
N2  - No study of the LTTE can afford to neglect Sri Lanka's cultural, historical, and georgraphical backdrop. The lack fo existential awareness of religious cross-fertilisation, the either/or foundations of Western reasoning and absence of local knowledge bedevil the scholarship that incorporates Sri Lanka within their global surveys of suicide attacks. Pape's "Dying to Win" is an example. Here, the LTTE's multi-pronged capacities are poorly evaluated. Too much significance is attributed to the coercive success of SMs in bringing the government to the negotiating table at various moments. Religious persecution has not been the main reason for the Tamil struggle. Comparative references to SMs elsewhere are occasionally interspersed in this review of the Sri Lankan scene.
SN  - 1617-5069
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/7868/
A1  - Roberts, Michael
ID  - heidok7868
KW  - Sri Lanka 
KW  -  Tigers 
KW  -  Pape 
KW  -  Suicide 
KW  -  Bombers 
KW  -  LTTE
TI  - Blunders in Tigerland: Pape's Muddles on "Suicide Bombers" in Sri Lanka
T3  - Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics
Y1  - 2007///
AV  - public
ER  -