Terrorism, armed struggle

This book offers a contemporary look at violence in Mexico and argues for a recalibration in how necropolitics, as the administration of life and death, is understood.

This book provides a multidisciplinary commentary on a wide range of religious traditions and their relationship to acts of violence.

This book explores how terrorists have been portrayed in the Western media, and the wider ideological and social functions of those representations.

Against the backdrop of the ongoing Rohingya crisis, this book takes a close and detailed look at the rise of militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, and especially at the issues of 'why' and 'how' around it.

As the attacks in Norway, Munich and most recently Christchurch have shown: a new threat is now shaking liberal Western societies.

This study thinks with photography about peace.

This book comprehensively examines right-wing extremism (RWE) in Canada, discussing the lengthy history of violence and distribution, ideological bases, actions, organizational capacity and connectivity of these extremist groups.

This book assesses the effectiveness of Nigeria's counterterrorist policies against Boko Haram.

This book explores the challenges of creating a secure and stable Iraq in the wake of the military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

Grounded in nine years of ethnographic research on the al Muhajiroun/Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah movement (ALM/ASWJ), Douglas Weeks mixes ethnography and traditional research methods to tell the complete story of al Muhajiroun.

This book explores the changing nature of secessionist attempts in connection with rapidly evolving geopolitical and technological landscapes.

This book analyzes state terror documentation as a form of peaceful resistance to oppressive regimes through substantial research in human rights archives that registered violations perpetrated by Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile.

This unique companion is a much-needed guide for those who are embarking on field research in conflict-affected countries.

This brief analyzes the social, historical and societal circumstances influencing the emergence of Islamist extremism in Kosovo and countries of the region.

This book applies game theory to the phenomenon of terrorism and investigates how the competition for support can influence the attack behavior of terror organizations.

This Brief provides a comprehensive introduction to current research on armed groups and proposes a unitary political theory for their future analysis.

This book explores the potential for imagining a politics without violence and evidence that this need not be a utopian project.

This book provides a detailed examination of the threats and dangers facing the West at the far end of the cybersecurity spectrum.

This edited volume addresses the role of non-state actors (NSAs) in international relations.

This volume investigates both violent conflicts and non-violent conflict behavior.

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.