Terrorism, armed struggle

This book introduces a constructivist approach to the study of terrorism and shows how language in the media affects our perceptions of 'terrorists' and how particular constructions of 'terrorist' automatically make certain counter-terrorism policies possible, logical and seemingly appropriate.

Do participatory processes open a political space to marginalized groups and individuals?

This book focuses on insurgent stateless warfare in its guerrilla and terrorist modes and in its nationalist, maoist and postmaoist phases of modernization.

The book critically examines the effects of the War on Terror on the relationships between civil society, security and aid.

Using a transnational approach, this volume surveys the origins of Irish terrorism and its impact on the Anglo-Saxon community during an era of intense imperialism.

Henry Gurney was the last Chief Secretary of the Mandate Government of Palestine.

Since 11 September 2001, the War on Terror has dominated global political life.

Carl Schmitt's friend/enemy principle is exposed to in-depth philosophical analysis and historical examination with the aim of showing that the political follows hostility, violence and terror as form follows matter.

The first comprehensive discussion of all the main philosophical issues raised by terrorism against the background of its past and recent developments.

This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields - the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts - whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the devastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America.

Feste develops a framework of terrorism termination dynamics constructed from empirical cases and applies it to the current al Qaeda problem to offer a new method for tracking development of terrorist episodes with implications for U.

Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.

A primer to terrorist financing and resourcing, this book examines what terrorist organizations must acquire in order to survive and operate, and describes the various means used to meet these needs.

This book is devoted to Israel's asymmetric wars, those conducted against irregular armed groups that have attacked it.

Inspired by a conference held at Northeastern University on the topic of Women, War, and Violence, editors Robin M.

In contrast to a globalizing approach to 'transnational organized crime,' this edited volume studies socio-historical environments in which mafia-esque violence has found a fertile ground for growth and development within the political arena.

While, not discounting the potency of the radical Islamic religious discourse in fuelling the contemporary wave of terrorism, this book makes an attempt to explain terrorism in China as an ethno-nationalist conflict rooted in issues involving minority identity.

Iraq: A Lost War deals with the impact of September 11th on the occupation of Iraq and the U.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the oldest and most important international Islamist group.

This study expounds upon the composition, dynamics, and consequences of the post-9/11 global security context by positing the following overarching research question: how has the event of 9/11 further enabled the US to legitimately articulate, disseminate, and implement an absolutist security agenda (ASA) on the world stage?

Treating Weapons Proliferation is a chilling exploration of the dynamics of weapons proliferation and nonproliferation.

In original essays written by both senior scholars as well as rising younger scholars in the field of international ethics, this volume addresses the ethics of war in an era when non-state actors are playing an increasingly prominent role in armed conflict.

The Impact of 9-11 on the Media, Arts, and Entertainment is the fourth volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything?

This book examines the various strategies, including Global Counterinsurgency (GCOIN), which have been put forward as alternatives to the Global War On Terror (GWOT), concluding that while a consensus can be found on the key elements of a grand strategy, based on failures in the GWOT, it is far from clear if any GCOIN strategy could work.

This book examines the influence of terrorist threat in the recent elections in the US, Great Britain, and Russia to analyze the influence of post-9/11 fears on voting behaviour in comparative perspective.

The Impact of 9-11 on Psychology and Education is the fifth volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything?

The Impact of 9/11 on Business and Economics is the second volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything?

The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape is the third volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything?

A long list of countries - labelled outcasts, pariahs and rogues - have failed to meet international standards of good conduct.

This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a period when the rise of right-wing extremism is being witnessed across the globe.

Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague.

An unflinching account of Russia's brutal war in Chechnya by a reporter who was assassinated because of her work Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Russian domination for centuries.

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence?

While we've long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, Selling Fear is the first detailed look at the role played by media in counterterrorism-and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration manipulated coverage to maintain a climate of fear.

"e;A sophisticated and persuasive late-modernist political analysis that consistently draws the reader into the narratives of the author and those of the people of violence in Northern Ireland to whom he talked.

The explosion of Web-based data has created a demand among executives and technologists for methods to identify, gather, analyze, and utilize data that may be of value to corporations and organizations.

The longest war the United States has ever fought is the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

One of our foremost authorities on modern Afghanistan, Barnett R.

One of our foremost authorities on modern Afghanistan, Barnett R.

Targeted killings represent both the contemporary weapon of choice and, clearly, the weapon of the future.

Why is it that some social movements engaged in contentious politics experience radicalization whereas others do not?

In seeking to evaluate the efficacy of post-9/11 homeland security expenses--which have risen by more than a trillion dollars, not including war costs--the common query has been, "e;Are we safer?

In this eye-opening work, the president of the ACLU takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror.

In this concise and fascinating book, Fawaz A.

The psychology of terrorism, in its most basic form, is about fear.

The longest war the United States has ever fought is the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "e;the country's best social scientists"e; by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "e;tremendously valuable.

This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and political controversies.

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Religious terrorism has become the scourge of the modern world.