Terrorism, armed struggle

Applying a rational choice perspective, this book presents a dynamic theory of the evolution of totalitarian regimes and terrorism.

Tackling one of the most prevalent myths about insurgencies, this book examines and rebuts the popular belief that Mao Zedong created a fundamentally new form of warfare that transformed the nature of modern insurgency.

This book questions when, why, and how it is just for a people to go to war, or to refrain from warring, in a post-9/11 world.

This book employs game theory to warfare and in particular to military operations.

This book explores the increasing political and social prominence of Islamist groups across the Middle East in recent years.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace.

This book is based on a participatory action research project carried out with a group of former Zimbabwe People's revolutionary Army (ZPRA) which was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) which was led by the late Joshua Nkomo.

This edited volume examines how the multiple manifestations of social violence in Brazil impacts the building of a peaceful society.

This book aims to advance the understanding of cultural property in armed conflict, and its significance for anti-terrorism and peace-building strategies.

This textbook provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to genocide with an emphasis on the criminal aspect of genocide.

This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber.

This book focuses on the current, chaotic world stage, which is characterized by new forms of global violence and new types of actors, such as terrorist networks.

This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and security of African states.

This book focuses on emotional engagement in academic research with victims of violence and testimonial documentation in Latin America.

This book examines the experience of post-colonial territories and their attempts to manage ethnic communities within their countries.

Challenging the standard paradigm of terrorism research through the use of Norbert Elias's figurational sociology, Michael Dunning explores the development of terrorism in Britain over the past two centuries, focusing on long-term processes and shifting power dynamics.

This book examines the projects of administrative and territorial reconstruction of Arab countries as an aftermath of the "e;Arab Spring"e;.

This book develops a conceptual approach to understanding the face of contemporary terrorism as manifested in the recent attacks in Mumbai and Paris.

War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with creative and effective solutions.

Following up on Donna Starr-Deelen's previous book Presidential Policies on Terrorism: From Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama (Palgrave, 2014), this book compares and contrasts the approach of the Obama administration with the Trump administration regarding national security and counter-terrorism.

This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran's connections with non-state entities in the Middle East.

This book discusses Kenya's transition from authoritarianism to more democratic forms of politics and its impact on Kenya's multi-ethnic society.

This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions.

This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty.

This volume examines contemporary political relations between Turkey and the Middle East.

This book describes three impactful cases of political violence that broke out in Mexico in 1994, pointing to an important juncture in Mexican political development.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the new wave of revolutions in the MENA region.

This book explores how ordinary Arab-speaking social media users have reacted to propaganda from the Islamic State, rather than how IS propaganda has targeted ordinary users, thus providing a change in perspective in the literature.

This book explores the impact and efficiency of Western intervention in African civil wars.

This book compares the performances of four key non-state actors in the Arab-Israeli conflict ecosystem: the PLO, Hamas, Hizbullah, and Amal.

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This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.

This book challenges the rhetoric linking 'war on terror' with 'war on human trafficking' by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level security concerns.

This book examines mass shootings and attempted shootings that occurred across 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, known as post-communist states.

From 2015, Europe was hit by a new wave of terrorist attacks, coordinated or supported by an international Islamist organization (ISIS) but sometimes also perpetrated by citizens of the targeted country: the attacks on Paris, Brussels, London, Manchester, Nice and Barcelona probably attracted most attention but the most dramatic were perpetrated in Paris, in January and November 2015.

This book explores the connections between migration and terrorism and extrapolates, with the help of current research and case studies, what the future may hold for both issues.

This book provides a detailed application of identity theory to contemporary questions of extremism, radicalization and security.

This book offers a very interesting deep-dive into EU and South Korean approaches to cybersecurity issues.

This book analyses the reasons for women's participation in the various Lebanese and Palestinian militias involved in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990).

This book seeks to answer the "e;why"e; and "e;how"e; questions about the insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkey's Kurds, in Turkey.

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that civil war inevitably stymies economic development and that 'civil war represents development in reverse'.

As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments and communities, or within the self.

This book argues that political Islam (represented by its moderate and militant forms) has failed to govern effectively or successfully due to its inability to reconcile its discursive understanding of Islam, centered on literal justice, with the dominant neo-liberal value of freedom.

This book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

This book offers distinct insights into the sources of state legitimacy in Africa by incorporating an analysis of non-state actors' role in service delivery.

While the themes of radicalization and Islamophobia have been broadly addressed by academia, to date there has been little investigation of the crosspollination between the two.

Der Nahe Osten ist seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs die Region in der Welt, welche am meisten von Kriegen und den daraus einhergehenden Folgen wie Instabilität, Terrorismus, Migration und Flucht betroffen ist.

In diesem Sammelband werden Erkenntnisse der Rechtsextremismusforschung über die Akzeptanz menschenverachtender Ideologien der Ungleichheit aufgegriffen und mit Ansätzen der Politischen Bildung, der Pädagogik und der Präventionsarbeit in Beziehung gesetzt.