A selection of our new titles published in Terrorism Studies this month. Highlights include the new edition of Terrorism vs Democracy by Paul Wilkinson and the Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research by Alex Schmid, amongst others.
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Series: Political Violence
This book examines the terrorist networks that operate globally and analyses the long-term future of terrorism and terrorist-backed insurgencies. Terrorism remains a serious problem for the international community. The global picture does not indicate that the ‘war on terror’, which President...
Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
This major new Handbook synthesises more than two decades of scholarly research, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field of terrorism studies. The content of the Handbook is based on the responses to a questionnaire by nearly 100 experts from more than 20 countries as well as the...
Published February 23rd 2011 by Routledge
Series: Contemporary Terrorism Studies
This book offers a new model for measuring the success and impact of counterterrorism strategies, using four comparative historical case studies. The effectiveness of counterterrorism measures is hard to assess, especially since the social impact of terrorist attacks is a fundamental and complex...
Published March 10th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Political Violence
This book examines the post-ceasefire evolutions and histories of the main Irish republican terrorist factions, and the interconnected character of politics and militarism within them. Offering the first comparative study of the two leading Irish republican terrorist movements the Official IRA and...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
Series: Asian Security Studies
This book examines the crime-terror nexus in South Asia, focusing in particular on the activities of non-state actors that operate out of Pakistan, and challenges the conventional wisdom that the Pakistan Taleban (TTP) and Al-Qaeda are Pakistan’s most serious security threats. Much research has...
Published April 7th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
This book offers an evaluation of female suicide bombers through postcolonial, Third World, feminist, and human-rights framework, drawing on case studies from conflicts in Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Chechnya, among others. Women Suicide Bombers explores why cultural, media and political reports...
Published April 17th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
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 this broader context, the volume has a number...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
This edited volume explores political violence and genocide in Latin America during the Cold War, examining this in light of the United States’ hegemonic position on the continent. Using case studies based on the regimes of Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Peru and Uruguay, this book shows how...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
This book examines the communicative aspects and implications of US counter-terrorist policies towards al-Qaeda. Recent US counter-terrorist strategy has been largely based upon projecting certain perceptions of America as an actor to those drawn to al-Qaeda, and this book investigates in what...
Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge
