Book Description
Offers a picture of the shifts in the practice and reception of terrorism and analyses how globalization has facilitated many of the changes.
Author : Peter Neumann
Publisher : Polity
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2009-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745643760
Offers a picture of the shifts in the practice and reception of terrorism and analyses how globalization has facilitated many of the changes.
Author : Peter Neumann
Publisher : Polity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2009-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745643755
Old and New Terrorism provides the most comprehensive account of the evolution of terrorism in the modern world, and a concise and careful analysis of the forces that have driven its transformation. The book: charts the development of terrorist network structures assesses the impact of modern communication systems on the spread of terrorism explains the rise of religiously inspired terrorism and,shows what lies behind mass-casualty terrorism and the targeting of civilians. Peter Neumann offers a subtle and sophisticated picture of the shifts in the practice and reception of terrorism, drawing on case studies ranging from the IRA to Al Qaeda. It makes sense of much of the literature that has been published over the past decade. Yet it also provides a highly original analysis of how globalization has facilitated many of the changes that have materialised in recent years. This book will be essential reading both for students and experts keen to understand the changing nature of terrorism and how it can best be fought.
Author : Ibrahim A. Karawan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2008-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1402086601
Most books on terrorism deal with descriptions of terrorist organizations and activities, some examine privacy and civil liberties issues, and others treat terrorism as a series of policy choices. Hardly any books deal with the foundational questions of values and violence as they relate to terrorism. The two unique features of this book are that it deals with violence at the normative foundations of values and human dignity and that it includes many of the best-known authors in the world from a variety of disciplines, making it a paradigmatic example of cutting-edge study in interdisciplinary scholarship, with a focus on bringing theories and policy issues closer together. "Values and Violence" includes chapters by a dozen of the leading scholars in the world on patterns of political violence, responses to terrorism, and the basic value choices inherent in them.
Author : Thomas R. Mockaitis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804759707
As shocking as the attacks of 9/11 were, we have been too quick to view the post-9/11 struggle against terrorism as entirely new and unprecedented. Without denying certain novel aspects of Al Qaeda and its affiliates, the "newness" of its purpose and methods has been overemphasized. Many aspects of contemporary terrorism bear a striking resemblance to past movements. Others represent the culmination of trends evolving over decades. Even seemingly novel characteristics of terrorist methods may be more the outcome of earlier developments than a truly new phenomenon. The increased lethality of terrorist attacks is a case in point. Usually attributed to lack of restraint brought on by religious extremism, the emphasis on body count may owe as much to a kind of threshold phenomenon. Numbed by decades of violence, people do not shock as easily as they once did. It now takes thousands of deaths to produce the same effect once caused by a relative handful. This book examines the nature of the contemporary threat within a historical context to discern continuities and change in terrorist behavior. It challenges the idea of a global war on terrorism and suggests that the United States, or any threatened country, would be better served by a policy aimed at reducing the risk of terrorist attack to an acceptable level at a reasonable cost. The book concludes by proposing a workable strategy for achieving this reasonable level of security.
Author : Randall D. Law
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745658210
Terrorism is one of the forces defining our age, but it has also been around since some of the earliest civilizations. This one-of-a-kind study of the history of terrorism — from ancient Assyria to the post-9/11 War on Terror — puts terrorism into broad historical, political, religious and social context. The book leads the reader through the shifting understandings and definitions of terrorism through the ages, and its continuous development of themes allows for a fuller understanding of the uses of and responses to terrorism. The study of terrorism is constantly growing and ever changing. In Terrorism: A History, Randall Law gives students and general readers access to this rich field through the most up-to-date research combined with a much-needed long-range historical perspective. He extensively covers jihadism, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland and the Ku Klux Klan plus lesser known movements in Uruguay, Algeria and even the pre-modern uses of terror in ancient Rome, medieval Europe and the French Revolution, among other topics.
Author : Bruce Hoffman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 0231126999
Defining terrorism -- The end of empire and the origins of contemporary terrorism -- The internationalization of terrorism -- Religion and terrorism -- Suicide terrorism -- The old media, terrorism, and public opinion -- The new media, terrorism, and the shaping of global opinion -- The modern terrorist mind-set: tactics, targets, tradecraft, and technologies -- Terrorism today and tomorrow.
Author : Gérard Chaliand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0520292502
First published in English in 2007 under title: The history of terrorism: from antiquity to al Qaeda.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896086852
The most up-to-date reflections on international terrorism by America's leading dissident, Noam Chomsky.
Author : Ian Lesser
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 1999-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0833032569
Traces the recent evolution of international terrorism against civilian and U.S. military targets, looks ahead to where terrorism is going, and assesses how it might be contained. The authors consider the threat of information-based terrorism and of weapons of mass destruction, with an emphasis on how changes in the sources and nature of terrorism may affect the use of unconventional terror. The authors propose counterterrorism strategies that address the growing problem of homeland defense.
Author : Mark S. Hamm
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1437929591
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.