Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Sharpeville
Chapter 3 Dili
Chapter 4 Dharasana
Chapter 5 The Beating of Rodney King
Chapter 6 Target: Whistleblowers
Chapter 7 The Dismissal of Ted Steele
Chapter 8 Environmental Disasters
Chapter 9 The Invasion of Iraq
Chapter 10 Abu Ghraib
Chapter 11 Countershock: Challenging Pushbutton Torture
Chapter 12 Terrorism as Predictable Backfire
Chapter 13 Theory and Backfire
Chapter 14 Conclusion
Brian Martin is associate professor in Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of a dozen books and hundreds of articles on peace and war, whistle-blowing, scientific controversies, democracy, and other topics.
Brian Martin has produced an interesting, well written, and
comprehensive approach to understanding the unintended consequences
of state power and crime. The book utilizes well-known historical
and contemporary cases in order to demonstrate the process of
backfire. Martin's work will appeal to scholars and activists
alike.
*Jeffrey Ian Ross, University of Baltimore*
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