Understanding terrorism challenges, perspectives, and issues
The Fourth Edition of Gus Martin's Understanding Terrorism, once again offers a multidisciplinary, comprehensive exploration of contemporary terrorism that helps readers develop the knowledge and skills they need to critically assess terrorism in general and terrorist incidents in particular. T...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Los Angeles, CA
SAGE
2013
|
| Edition: | 4th ed. |
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Terrorism: a conceptual review
- Terrorism: first impressions
- The nature of the beast: defining terrorism
- Beginnings: the causes of terrorism
- The terrorists
- Terror from above: state terrorism
- Terror from below: Dissident terrorism
- Violence in the name of faith: religious terrorism
- Violent ideologies: terrorism from left and right
- Terrorist spillovers: international terrorism
- Emerging terrorist environments: gender-selective political violence and criminal dissident terrorism
- The terrorist trade
- Tools of the trade: tactics and targets of terrorists
- The information battleground: terrorist violence and role of the media
- Final analysis
- The American case: terrorism in the United States
- Responding to terror: the options
- What next? The future of terrorism.