Terrorism, armed struggle Books

Troy analyses how the understanding of religion in Realism and the English School helps in working toward the greater good in international relations, and studies religion within the overall framework of international affairs, integrating and framing...

Do participatory processes open a political space to marginalized groups and individuals? Or do they co-opt and coerce groups to reinforce existing inequitable relations? In an innovative comparative study which breaks with tradition this book explores...

Since 11 September 2001, the War on Terror has dominated global political life. The book takes a critical look at different ways in which the George W. Bush administration created and justified this far-reaching conflict through their use of language and...

Perspectives List List of Illustrations and Maps Abbreviations and Terms Acknowledgments The Diary and the Diarist Real Time and Researcher's Time Annotated Diary and Perspectives Epilogue - Colonial Orphans Biographical Notes Bibliography Index

Organised around the themes of seeing, waiting and travelling, this book presents an innovative reassessment of the War on Terror. Opening with the September 11 attacks and moving forward in time, each chapter focuses upon a different feature of this...

What is being done to counter threats of maritime terrorism and how effective are the safeguards? The author presents evidence that Al-Qaeda aims to disrupt the seaborne trading system, the backbone of the model global economy, and would use a...

"Inside the Threat" offers a harrowing exploration into the world of radiological weapons, commonly referred to as "dirty bombs," and the tireless efforts of homeland security agencies to prevent their detonation on civilian soil...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Gemeinschaftskunde / Sozialkunde, Note: 1,5, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Video der Hinrichtung des jordanischen Piloten Muaz al-Kasaesbeh durch die Terrormiliz „Islamischer Staat" (IS)...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Orientalistik / Sinologie - Islamwissenschaft, Note: 1,7, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden Hausarbeit möchte ich mich dem Thema der Selbstmordanschläge...

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 12.0, Aalborg University (Culture and Global Studies), language: English, abstract: The paper sets out to show the...

 Since 9/11 many books have been published on Islamic terrorism, but few of these have considered the issue from the perspective of strategic studies or in terms of an “insurgency.” As a result, much of this literature ignores the...

Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One: Maslow is Non-Deployable:Modifying Maslow's Hierarchy for Contemporary Counterinsurgency; Chapter Two:The Use of Cultural Studies in Military Operations: A Model for Assessing Values-Based Differences; Chapter Three:...

While much has been said about the global war on terror, the concept remains cunningly elusive and yet undeniably pervasive. This collection of essays is an effort to discover the Canadian ""self"" through exploration of the terrorist ""other...

The Lebanese Hizballah, or the Party of God, has been a player in Lebanese and regional politics since 1982. It gained international notoriety as a result of the 1983 suicide attack that claimed the lives of 241 U. S. Marines, then stationed in Lebanon...

The United States is now in the third year of the global war on terrorism. That war began as a fight against the organization that perpetrated the heinous attacks of September 11, 2001, but soon became a much more ambitious enterprise, encompassing,...

The U. S. relationship with China and the global war on terrorism are the two most significant strategic challenges faced by the Bush administration. Both are vital and complex; the way the administration manages them will shape American security for...

The last twenty years have seen an unprecedented rise in the use of secret courts or 'closed material proceedings' largely brought about in response to the need to protect intelligence sources in the fight against terrorism. This has called into question...

Terrorism and Counterterrorism introduces students to the field's main debates and helps them critically address this complex and enduring issue.

The 9/11 attacks have had many extraordinary consequences. The horrific violence of that day ushered in a different world, a different time. We have all become, in one way or another, witnesses in the global theatre of terrorism. Terrorists want their...

This book is dedicated to all patriots - past, present, and future, and especially to the modern day patriots of America -- the brave American men and women in our armed forces who fought and died and are fighting and dying this day in Afghanistan and...

Global Terrorism and New Media carefully examines the content of terrorist websites and extremist television programming to provide a comprehensive look at how terrorist groups use new media today. Based partly on a content analysis of discussion boards...

This volume aims to 'bring the state back into terrorism studies' and fill the notable gap that currently exists in our understanding of the ways in which states employ terrorism as a political strategy of internal governance or foreign policy. Within...

Serves as a comprehensive, practical overview for students, as well as an up-to-date reference for professionals, in the transportation sector charged with safeguarding pipelines, transit, rail, trucking, aviation, ports and maritime operations, and the...

Examining the international dimensions of the Syrian conflict, this book studies external factors relating to the Uprising. It explores the involvement of outside powers and the events' impact both on regional and international level.Syria was widely...

In contrast to the widely held assumption that terrorists as crazed fanatics, Jerrold Post demonstrates they are psychologically "normal" and that "hatred has been bred in the bone". He reveals the powerful motivations that drive these ordinary people...

Foreword; R.Stewart SECTION I: NEW NARRATIVES AND THE MEDIA Aggressive Action in Search of a Dominant Narrative; M.Dubnick, D.F.Olshfski & K.Callahan 9/11 and the Social Construction of a National Narrative; R.Jackson Battle of Narratives: The Real...

This book focuses on the historical and contemporary responses of urban authorities to disaster and terrorism and what this means for citizens and society.

The important and controversial issue of cross-border security cooperation against the IRA during before the Good Friday agreement is woefully underrepresented in the literature on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. On this first book on the subject,...

Witnesses of terrorism, spread throughout the world, watched the 9/11 terrorist attacks in real-time. Images were instantly beamed to audiences both near and far from where passenger airplanes were hijacked and flown into some of the United States' most...

Understanding Collective Political Violence offers a unique view on contemporary processes of violent political mobilization across continents: Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and the Middle East. It pays particular attention to unconventional...

This book provides a fascinating analysis of the external and internal linkages that have for decades impeded economic and political reforms in the Arab world, and presents a new and coherent framework that enables policy makers and practitioners to...

Introduction; B.Barton & P.Roche The Historical Background to the Belfast Agreement; B.Barton Negotiating the Belfast Agreement; T.Hennessey Implementing Devolved Government 1999-2002; G.Gudgin The Belfast Agreement and the Constitutional Status of...

Political assassinations are always shocking and traumatic; sometimes however they lead to a cultural trauma, that is, a broad public debate about the foundations of collective identity. The theory of cultural trauma is applied in this book to six...

Saudi Arabia influences American policy through both conventional and unconventional methods, ranging from lobbying and endowments to think tanks, policy centers, universities, and workshops for schoolteachers, all due to the petro-dollars that have been...

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,...

The Ethics and Efficacy of the Global War on Terrorism is a collection of recent and provocative articles by such influential figures as Noam Chomsky and Scott Atran. It presents a variety of perspectives and disciplines that critically examine...

This volume introduces the concept of Islamist extremist "master narratives" and offers a method for identifying and analyzing them. Drawing on rhetorical and narrative theories, the chapters examine thirteen master narratives and explain how extremists...

This study examines the functional relationship between millenarian-inspired terrorism and the process of political change. Through an exhaustive investigation of late twentieth-century movements--Aum Shinrikyo, Sendero Luminoso, and Hezbollah--it...

This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable "in" and the threatening "out" by examining the pathologies associated with weather,...

With links to the global jihad, the indigenous insurgency and terrorism in Xinjiang challenges the security and stability of China. This book examines the prevailing scholarship on ethnic and minority conflicts and argues that the root cause of the...