How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns

herself to demonstrating that the kind of democratic practices she describes always yield the results they aim at, or even partial victories, though she holds out the prospect that, even if they fail in the short term, they may create new possibilities that might have transformative effects later. What she does show is that there is evidence to support her analysis of the increasing (if slowly) transnational influence and reach of cosmopolitan human rights discourse, and that this influence can enhance agency in multiple public spheres. In keeping with her concept of a “cosmopolitanism without illusions,” she is sober in her speculations about where all these advances will lead in the future, offering reasons to hope rather than promises of successes.