Terrorism & Political Violence

This volume discusses the effects of the legal and social aspects of terrorism by examining the relation between security issues and human rights from the angle of international organizations, political bodies and different countries...

Explores the interrelationship between terrorism and policy relevance from a range of critical perspectives. In particular, it questions the politics of policy-relevance; that is, it interrogates how epistemological and practical pressures to produce "policy-relevant" research shapes prevalent under..

Considering a range of influential terror groups from the last 40 years, this book explores relationships between people, social processes and activities that result in acts of terrorism. It examines Islamic groups alongside nationalist, 'red' and far right organizations to identify important simila..

The book aims to outline the progress, problems and challenges of delivering a safe and secure Olympics in the context of the contemporary serious and enduring terrorist threat...

The book aims to outline the progress, problems and challenges of delivering a safe and secure Olympics in the context of the contemporary serious and enduring terrorist threat...

This study places terrorist acts in Europe in their historical perspective by examining terrorist and anarchist movements in late nineteenth century Europe. The political and legal aspects of modern terrorism are discussed in detail and the themes and variation in political terrorism are examined fu..

When originally published in 1984, this book was the first detailed study of terrorism in Ireland. It assesses the situation in Ireland after a decade or more of violence in the North and tests some of the assumptions about the nature of terrorism and discusses the problem in a geo-political context..

Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century helps readers understand terrorism, responses to it, and current trends that affect the future of this phenomenon._x005F_x000D_ Putting terrorism into historical perspective and analyzing it as a form of political violence, this text presents the most essential ..

This new Reader aims to guide students through some of the key readings on the subject of terrorism and political violence...

This new Reader aims to guide students through some of the key readings on the subject of terrorism and political violence...

This book examines whether peace and conflict studies can contribute to the possibility of resolution, management and/or transformation of terrorist conflicts. Equally, it also investigates the extent to which peace and conflict studies can benefit from traditional and critical terrorism studies app..

Using rare field research, this book investigates whether and how talking may transform terrorist violence...