Critical perspectives on counter-terrorism

This volume examines the rationale, effectiveness and consequences of counter terrorism practices from a range of perspectives and cases. The book critically interrogates contemporary counter-terrorism powers from military campaigns and repression through to the prosecution of terrorist suspects, co...

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Other Authors: Jarvis, Lee 1979- (Editor), Lister, Michael 1976- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2015
Series:Routledge critical terrorism studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the ends of counter-terrorism / Lee Jarvis and Michael Lister
  • 1. "There's a good reason they are called al-Qaeda in Iraq. They are al-Qaeda...in...Iraq." The impossibility of a global counterterrorism strategy, or the end of the nation state / Bob de Graaff
  • 2. Counter-Terrorism: The Ends of a Secular Ministry / Charlotte Heath-Kelly
  • 3. Spatial and temporal imaginaries in the securitization of terrorism / Kathryn Marie Fisher
  • 4. Counter-terrorism as conflict transformation / Laura Zahra McDonald, Basia Spalek, Phillip Daniel Silk, Raquel Da Silva and Zubeda Limbada
  • 5. Contemporary Spanish anti-terrorist policies: ancient myths, new approaches / Agata Serrano
  • 6. "I read it in the FT": 'Everyday' knowledge of counter-terrorism and its articulation / Lee Jarvis and Michael Lister
  • 7. Prosecuting Suspected Terrorists: Precursor Crimes, Intercept Evidence and the Priority of Security / Stuart MacDonald
  • 8. Banishing the enemies of all mankind: the effectiveness of proscribing terrorist organisations in Australia, Canada, the UK and US / Tim Legrand
  • 9. Britain's Prevent Programme: An end in sight? / Paul Thomas
  • 10. How terrorism ends: negotiating the end of the IRA's 'armed struggle' / Paul Dixon
  • 11. From Counter Terrorism to Soft Authoritarianism: The Case of Sri Lanka / Neil Devotta