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Terrorism studies a reader

This new Reader aims to guide students through some of the key readings on the subject of terrorism and political violence. In an age when there is more written about terrorism than anyone can possibly read in a lifetime, it has become increasingly difficult for students and scholars to navigate the...

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Other Authors: Horgan, John, Braddock, Kurt
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2012
Subjects:
Terrorism
Political violence
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Table of Contents:
  • Section 1. Terrorism in historical context. Fear and trembling : terrorism in three religious traditions / David C. Rapoport
  • How new is the new terrorism? / Isabelle Duyvesteyn
  • The four waves of modern terrorism / David C. Rapoport
  • Section 2. Definitions. Conceptualization of terrorism / Jack P. Gibbs
  • The challenges of conceptualizing terrorism / Leonard Weinberg, Ami Pedahzur and Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler
  • The response problem as a definition problem / Alex P. Schmid
  • Section 3. Understanding and explaining terrorism. The causes of terrorism / Martha Crenshaw
  • Turning to terror : the conditions under which political parties turn to terrorist activities / Leonard Weinberg
  • A conceptual framework for addressing psychological process in the development of the terrorist / Max Taylor and John Horgan
  • Section 4. Terrorist movements. Hizbollah's command leadership : its structure, decision-making, and relationship with Iranian clergy and institutions / Magnus Ranstorp
  • The Provisional IRA : a case study / Charles J.M. Drake
  • Right-wing terrorism in a comparative perspective : the case of split delegitimization / Ehud Sprinzak
  • A subnational study of insurgency : FARC violence in the 1990s / Jennifer S. Holmes, Sheilar Amin Gutiérrex de Piñeres and Kevin M. Curtin
  • Al Qaeda : a different diagnosis / Xavier Raufer
  • Section 5. Terrorist behaviour. On individual motivations in underground political organizations / Donatella della Porta
  • Decisions to use terrorism : psychological constraints on instrumental reasoning / Martha Crenshaw
  • The strategic logic of suicide terrorism / Robert A. Pape
  • Palestinian suicide bombing : public support, market share, and outbidding / Mia M. Bloom
  • Section 6. Counterterrorism. A tertiary model for countering terrorism in liberal democracies : the case of Israel / Ami Pedahzur and Magnus Ranstorp
  • The leaderless nexus : when crime and terror converge / Chris Dishman
  • Fire of Iolaus : the role of state countermeasures in causing terrorism and what needs to be done / Andrew Silke
  • Key considerations in counterideological work against terrorist ideology / Muhammad Haniff Bin Hassan
  • Section 7. Current and future trends in terrorism. WMD terrorism research : whereto from here? / Gary Ackerman
  • The changing face of Al Qaeda and the global war on terrorism / Bruce Hoffman
  • Six rather unusual propositions about terrorism / John Mueller
  • Martyrdom mythology in Iraq : how jihadists frame suicide terrorism in videos and biographies / Mohammed M. Hafez
  • Countering female terrorism / Karla J. Cunningham
  • "They haven't gone away, you know" : Irish republican "dissidents" and "armed struggle" / Jonathan Tonge
  • Homegrown jihadist terrorism in the United States : a new and occasional phenomenon? / Lorenzo Vidino
  • Appropriated martyrs : the Branch Davidians and the radical right / Michael Barkun.

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