Terrorism, armed struggle

Since the early weeks of the so-called Arab Spring, high hopes for democratic, social, and political change in the Middle East have been met with varying degrees of frustration.

Japan was shaken by the 'double disaster' of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the 'triple disaster' of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown.

This book explores how potential bio-threats and risks may evolve post 9/11 given the rapid changes in biotechnology and synthetic biology.

This book lays out the foundation of a privacy doctrine suitable to the cyber age.

The 'Cominternians' who staffed the Communist International in Moscow from its establishment in 1919 to its dissolution in 1943 led transnational lives and formed a cosmopolitan but closed and privileged world.

The essays in this book concern manifestations of political violence in the democracies of interwar Europe.

Drawing on lessons from civil society in Northern Ireland, Beyond Social Capital examines the limitations of social capital theory in deeply divided societies.

This book confronts the issues young people face growing up in the confusion and anxiety of today's highly global society.

This book analyzes the effects of economic, social, and political disruptions that have come with integration into the global economy for countries in five different regions and the developing world as a whole.

During the revolution in Iran, a small, fanatical group called the Forqan used targeted assassinations of religious leaders to fight the Ayatollah Khomeini's plan to establish a theocratic Islamic state.

Traditional counter-terrorism approaches, with their emphasis on the military, are failing.

This book is a large-scale study of global creative activism.

Drawing on unique first-hand data from Russia's North Caucasus, this study is the first of its kind to detail the causes and contexts of individual disengagement of various types of militants: avengers, nationalists, and jihadists.

This book explores the success and failures of the Prevent strategy, which was developed by the UK Government to help stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'.

Violent Neoliberalism explores the complex unfolding relationship between neoliberalism and violence.

This work examines violence in the age of the terror wars with an eye toward the technologies of governance that create, facilitate, and circulate that violence.

The central concern of the book is the impact of global terror networks and state counterterrorism on twentieth-century fiction.

This book provides the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics.

While the deterrence of cyber attacks is one of the most important issues facing the United States and other nations, the application of deterrence theory to the cyber realm is problematic.

Offering an introduction to clanism and tribalism in the Gulf of Aden area, Dr Lewis uses these concepts to analyse security in Yemen, Somalia, Somaliland and the broader region.

Building upon Mitchell's earlier work, The Structure of International Conflict, this volume surveys the field of conflict analysis and resolution in the twenty-first century, exploring the methods which people have sought to mitigate destructive processes including the creative and innovative new ways of resolving insoluble disputes.

Hamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states.

The Vietnam War and Indian independence devastated British policy towards Asia.

This book examines the rapidly evolving relationship between the British Labour Party and the emerging Irish nationalist forces, from which was formed the first government of the Irish Free State as both metamorphosed from opposition towards becoming the governments of their respective states.

The increased targeting of civilians by militants raises serious and profound questions for policy-makers.

This book uniquely applies securitization theory to the mass sexual violence atrocities committed during the Bosnia war and the Rwandan genocide.

Media, Myth and Terrorism is a rigorous case study of Blitz mythology in British newspaper responses to the July 7th bombings.

The events of 9/11 prompted questions as to the origins, nature and purpose of international jihadist organisations.

In the aftermath of the Edward Snowden leaks, the Obama administration has been hard pressed to yield to greater transparency and openness to constructive change.

Cyber-War provides a critical assessment of current debates around the likelihood and impact of cyber warfare.

Linda Matar examines Syria's failure to promote employment-generating investment prior to the uprising.

This book rigorously documents and explains the genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan state against indigenous Maya populations within the context of its counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerrillas between 1981 and 1983.

While the 2011 Egyptian revolution has already become the subject of much debate, the roots of the socio-economic context which made the revolution possible have seldom been explored.

This unique, historical study explores how states have articulated statements about terrorism since the 1930s and what effect these discourses have had on global politics.

The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of am?

This is a study that examines United Nations' efforts against terrorism in the 1970s and how West Germany came to influence and lead them.

This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America's major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War.

This book challenges the widely held assumption that a nuclear-armed Iran would provoke a proliferation cascade in the Middle East.

Mega Cause I was one of the largest in a recent surge of trials in Argentina for human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of 1976-1983.

On 15th February 2003, two million people marched in the streets of London to call on the British government not to go to war with Iraq.

In civil war the causal mechanism on recruitment of combatants is complicated because armed groups interact for context-based strategic.

This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland.

This innovative new book aims to put society's fight against terrorism into a comprehensive crime prevention perspective with a clear, understandable theoretical foundation, developing a general model for the prevention of crime which is, in this book, applied to terrorism.

The thought of Antonio Gramsci continues to enjoy widespread appeal in contemporary political and social theory.

Niranjan Ramakrishnan examines the surprising extent to which Gandhi's writings still provide insight into current global tensions and the assumptions that drive them.

As democracy encounters difficulties, many citizens are turning to the domain of alternative politics and, in so doing, making considerable use of the new communication technologies.

Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated technologies'.

This book explores Israeli Religious Zionism and US Christian Zionism by focusing on the Messianic and Millenarian drives at the basis of their political mobilization towards a 'Jewish colonization' of the occupied territories.

The IRA's ability to exploit the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland was central to the organisation's capacity to wage its 'Long War' over a quarter of a century.