Britain and Terrorism

Michael Dunning is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK. His primary research interests include the processes and relationships that contribute to the development of terrorism, ‘radicalisation’ and extremism.

• Introduction: Research on Terrorism as Part of the Terrorism Problem.-Section 1: The Sociogenesis of Terrorism in Nineteenth Century Britain.- Chapter 1: The Development of the Concept of Terrorism in Antithesis to the Concept of Civilisation.- Chapter 2: The Sociogenesis of Terrorism in Nineteenth Century Britain in Relation to Ireland.- Chapter 3: Trades Unions, Political Reformers, Revolutionary Europe and Terrorism.- Section 2: The Sociogenesis of Terrorism in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Britain.- Chapter 4: The World Wars and the Cold War – Terrorism and Inter-State Violence.- Chapter 5: The Sociogenesis of Terrorism, the End of the British Empire, the Middle East and International Terrorism.- Chapter 6: The Fault-Lines in the British Monopoly of Violence and ‘Domestic’ Terrorism.- Section 3: Micro-Level Processes and Jihadist Terrorism in Britain..- Chapter 7: Case Study: the 7/7 Bombers..- Chapter 8: Case Study: British Jihadis in Syria and Iraq.- Conclusion.