Terrorism & Political Violence

Drawing on a number of examples, including religious, nationalist, and racialist, from territories across the world, this book creates an innovative framework within which to allow a holist account of terrorism to emerge. It is the first textbook on the subject based on sociological research. ..

Adopting an innovative approach to the ongoing debate over homeland security and state response to terrorism, Joseph Campos investigates the contextualizing of national security discourse and its management of terrorism. The volume incorporates historical depth and critical theory in a comparative f..

This book provides a history and analysis of terror groups that both formed the Iraq insurgency and lead to the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). It places heavy emphasis on the history, organization, and personalities of the al-Qaeda in Iraq (now ISIS), the former Baathist regime ..

A timely and critical panorama of how states have responded to the test of terrorism since 9/11. It encompasses philosophical discourses about terrorism, the perils of counterterrorism encapsulated in the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, learning in counterinsurgency, the effectiveness of counterte..

This book provides students with a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological introduction to terrorism studies...

This book provides students with a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological introduction to terrorism studies...

This book describes and analyzes the convergence of transnational organized crime and jihadist terrorism that has taken place within Russian-speaking social networks in Western Europe...

U.S. Counterterrorism examines the "war on modern terrorism," beginning in the Nixon Administration through the end of the Obama Administration. The policy and programs of each administration in response to the changing terrorist threats faced over time are examined. This includes the evolution of t..

Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism..

The focus of this volume is to explore new and innovative ways forward in better understanding and predicting the potential convergence between unconventional (CBRN)weapons and terrorism...

The primary objective of this book is to understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria...

This book offers a guide to different aspects of de-radicalization theories, programs and methods...