Contemporary Terrorism Studies – serie
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Understanding Boko Haram
Terrorism and Insurgency in Africa
Av James J. Hentz, Hussein Solomon
Häftad, 2018
743 kr
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The primary objective of this book is to understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria. Boko Haram’s goal of an Islamic Caliphate, starting in the Borno State in the North East that will eventually cover the areas of the former Kanem-Borno Empire, is a rejection of the …
Reintegrating Jihadist Extremist Detainees
Helping Extremist Offenders Back into Society
Av Daan Weggemans, Beatrice de Graaf
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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This book seeks to understand the processes of reintegration of former Jihadist detainees, as well as the role that the police and other frontline professionals play in this process. Over the past few decades the number of people who have been detained under the suspicion of terrorist activities …
Terrorist Decision-Making
A Leader-Centric Approach
Av Alex Mintz, Tyson Chatagnier m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2446 kr
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This book analyzes a series of decisions by leaders of three major terrorist organizations and identifies a unique "Decision DNA" for each of them.The authors use the Applied Decision Analysis methodology to examine organizational and operational decisions made by the leaders of three major groups: …
Strategic Culture and Violent Non-State Actors
A Comparative Study of Salafi-Jihadist Groups
Inbunden, 2020
1901 kr
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This book applies strategic culture concepts to violent non-state actors (VNSAs) in a comparative analysis. In recent years, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has become notorious for kidnapping Western hostages in north-western Africa and for its role in the short-lived Islamist takeover of …
Victims and Perpetrators of Terrorism
Exploring Identities, Roles and Narratives
Av Orla Lynch, Javier Argomaniz
Häftad, 2019
741 kr
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This volume examines how both victims and perpetrators of terrorism are relevant to our understanding of political violence.While the perpetrators of political violence have been the subject of significant academic research, victims of terrorism and political violence have rarely featured in this …
Female Terrorism in America
Past and Current Perspectives
Av Jonathan Matusitz, Elena Berisha
Inbunden, 2020
2508 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of female terrorism in America, both past and present. The volume takes a fresh look at women’s actions of left-wing political violence, right-wing political violence, and religious extremist violence (among others). It also examines the multitude of …
Female Terrorism in America
Past and Current Perspectives
Av Jonathan Matusitz, Elena Berisha
Häftad, 2022
690 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of female terrorism in America, both past and present. The volume takes a fresh look at women’s actions of left-wing political violence, right-wing political violence, and religious extremist violence (among others). It also examines the multitude of …
Strategic Culture and Violent Non-State Actors
A Comparative Study of Salafi-Jihadist Groups
Häftad, 2024
690 kr
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This book applies strategic culture concepts to violent non-state actors (VNSAs) in a comparative analysis. In recent years, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has become notorious for kidnapping Western hostages in north-western Africa and for its role in the short-lived Islamist takeover of …
Jihadism, Foreign Fighters and Radicalization in the EU
Legal, Functional and Psychosocial Responses
Av Inmaculada Marrero Rocha, Humberto Trujillo Mendoza
Häftad, 2020
719 kr
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Jihadism, Foreign Fighters and Radicalization in the EU addresses the organizational and strategic changes in terrorism in Europe as a result of urban jihadism and the influx of foreign fighters of European nationality or residence.Examining the different types of responses to the treatment of …
Deterring Terrorism
A Model for Strategic Deterrence
Häftad, 2020
690 kr
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This book examines the question of how to deter a non-state terrorist actor.Can terrorism be deterred? This book argues that current research is unable to find strong cases of deterrence success, because it uses a flawed research design which does not capture the longitudinal dynamics of the …
Social Movement De-Radicalisation and the Decline of Terrorism
The Morphogenesis of the Irish Republican Movement
Av Gordon Clubb
Häftad, 2020
690 kr
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By drawing on social movement theories, this book explains how terrorist movements decline, using the case of Irish Republicanism. The continuity of terrorism and political violence from generation to generation demonstrates the need to go beyond a focus on groups or individuals in order to explain …
Transnational Organized Crime and Jihadist Terrorism
Russian-Speaking Networks in Western Europe
Häftad, 2020
719 kr
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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.Studies have shown that while under certain circumstances links between criminal organizations and terrorist groups …
Assessing the War on Terror
Western and Middle Eastern Perspectives
Häftad, 2020
690 kr
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This volume is a collection of articles that critically examine the efficacy, ethics, and impact of the War on Terror as it has evolved since 9/11. During the decade and a half of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), numerous books have considered the political, psychosocial, and economic impacts of …
Understanding Terrorist Innovation
Technology, Tactics and Global Trends
Av Adam Dolnik
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical trends in terrorist innovation, as well as …
Strategy of Terrorism
How it Works, and Why it Fails
Av Peter R. Neumann, M.L.R. Smith
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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This is the first book to set out a comprehensive framework by which to understand terrorism as strategy. It contends that even terrorism of the supposedly nihilist variety can be viewed as a bona fide method for distributing means to fulfil the ends of policy, that is, as a strategy. The main …
Women and Terrorism
Female Activity in Domestic and International Terror Groups
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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This book examines the relationship between women and terrorist activities in the post-World War II era. Utilizing comparative research into 26 terrorist organizations world-wide, the work identifies a dichotomy whereby women are significantly more active in domestic terrorist organizations than in …
Psychology of Strategic Terrorism
Public and Government Responses to Attack
Av Ben Sheppard
Inbunden, 2008
747 kr
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This new volume explores terrorism and strategic terror, examining how the public responds to terrorist attacks, and what authorities can do in such situations.The book uses a unique interdisciplinary approach, which combines the behavioural sciences and international relations, in order to further …
Female Terrorism and Militancy
Agency, Utility, and Organization
Häftad, 2008
754 kr
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This edited volume provides a window on the many forces that structure and shape why women and girls participate in terrorism and militancy, as well as on how states have come to view, treat, and strategize against them. Females who carry out terrorist acts have historically been seen as mounting a …
Managing Terrorism and Insurgency
Regeneration, Recruitment and Attrition
Inbunden, 2009
1837 kr
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This book examines how governments can weaken the regenerative capabilities of terrorist and insurgent groups.The exploration of this question takes the form of a two-tier examination of three insurgent actors whose capacity to regenerate weakened in the past: the Front de libération du Québec …
De-Radicalization of Jihadists
Transforming Armed Islamist Movements
Av Omar Ashour
Inbunden, 2009
2525 kr
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This book is the first detailed study of the causes of de-radicalization in armed Islamist movements. It is based on frontline research that includes interviews with Jihadist leaders, mid-ranking commanders, and young sympathizers, as well as former security and intelligence officers and state …
Targeting Terrorist Financing
International Cooperation and New Regimes
Inbunden, 2009
3168 kr
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This book examines the dynamics of terrorist financing, including a discussion about the importance of money from both the terrorist and the counter-terrorist perspective. Targeting Terrorist Financing argues that it is not the institutions that have failed the war on terrorist financing; rather it …
Talking to Terrorists
Concessions and the Renunciation of Violence
Häftad, 2012
856 kr
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This book examines the doctrine of giving no concessions to terrorists, and uses empirical research to establish whether there is any link between negotiating with such groups and the spread of violence.The logic of the no-concessions doctrine is based on the argument that other terrorist groups …
Understanding Terrorist Innovation
Technology, Tactics and Global Trends
Av Adam Dolnik
Häftad, 2009
739 kr
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This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical trends in terrorist innovation, as well as …
Strategy of Terrorism
How it Works, and Why it Fails
Av Peter R. Neumann, M.L.R. Smith
Häftad, 2009
915 kr
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This is the first book to set out a comprehensive framework by which to understand terrorism as strategy. It contends that even terrorism of the supposedly nihilist variety can be viewed as a bona fide method for distributing means to fulfil the ends of policy, that is, as a strategy. The main …
Religion and Political Violence
Sacred Protest in the Modern World
Inbunden, 2009
1530 kr
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This book uses the theory of social movements and first-hand interviews to create a new analysis of religiously motivated political violence in the modern world. Examining the movement to restore Sharia law to a dominant place in the Egyptian government, the movement to make abortion illegal in the …
International Terrorism Post-9/11
Comparative Dynamics and Responses
Av Asaf Siniver
Inbunden, 2010
768 kr
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This edited volume brings together both western and non-western approaches to counter-terrorism in the post-9/11 era. This multi-cultural study of counter-terrorism strategies identifies common lessons from failed and successful attempts to counter the terrorist threat and provides guidelines for …
EU and Counter-Terrorism
Politics, Polity and Policies after 9/11
Inbunden, 2011
2525 kr
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This book offers a theoretically informed analysis of how coherently the European Union fights terrorism in the post-9/11 era.Few studies have looked at how the European Union has transformed into a relevant international anti-terrorist actor. Yet, as a reaction to the terrorist attacks in New …
Women and Terrorism
Female Activity in Domestic and International Terror Groups
Häftad, 2009
915 kr
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This book examines the relationship between women and terrorist activities in the post-World War II era. Utilizing comparative research into 26 terrorist organizations world-wide, the work identifies a dichotomy whereby women are significantly more active in domestic terrorist organizations than in …
Psychology of Strategic Terrorism
Public and Government Responses to Attack
Av Ben Sheppard
Häftad, 2009
362 kr
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This new volume explores terrorism and strategic terror, examining how the public responds to terrorist attacks, and what authorities can do in such situations.The book uses a unique interdisciplinary approach, which combines the behavioural sciences and international relations, in order to further …
Talking to Terrorists
Concessions and the Renunciation of Violence
Inbunden, 2010
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines the doctrine of giving no concessions to terrorists, and uses empirical research to establish whether there is any link between negotiating with such groups and the spread of violence.The logic of the no-concessions doctrine is based on the argument that other terrorist groups …
