Christophe Chowanietz is professor of political science at John Abbott College.
Chowanietz' s findings add a new dimension to studies of counterterrorist policies and practices. No other author has specifically addressed the issue of how terrorist actions impact upon party politics in democracies by marshalling both quantitative and qualitative evidence across a comparative range of countries. He sheds much-needed light on how policies are formed and sustained in the partisan competition that characterizes all western democracies as well as how policy informs and limits the capacity of governments to act in the face of terrorist provocations. Reg Whitaker, University of Victoria