Military, Strategic, and Security Studies Research

Lessons and Legacies of the War On Terror

From moral panic to permanent war

Edited by Gershon Shafir, Everard Meade, William Aceves

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

This volume examines the lessons and legacies of the U.S.-led "Global War on Terror," utilizing the framework of a political "moral panic." A decade after 9/11, it is increasingly difficult to deny that terror has prevailed – not as a specific enemy, but as a way of life. Transport, trade, and...

Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge

Selling the War on Terror

Foreign Policy Discourses after 9/11

By Jack Holland

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

This book uses a comparative analysis to examine foreign policy discourses and the dynamics of the ‘War on Terror'. The book considers the three principal members of the Coalition of the Willing in Afghanistan and Iraq: the United States, Britain and Australia. Despite significant cultural,...

Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge

Terrorism, Talking and Transformation

A Critical Approach

By Harmonie Toros

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

Using rare field research, this book investigates whether and how talking may transform terrorist violence. Given the failings of today’s dominant counterterrorism strategy, is talking a viable policy option to transform conflicts marked by terrorist violence? This book examines the reasons why "...

Published February 16th 2012 by Routledge

Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence

The 'War on Terror' as Terror

Edited by Scott Poynting, David Whyte

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power through a series of case studies of political violence arising from state ‘counter-terrorism’ strategies. The book examines how state counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror, in the form of state political...

Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge

The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan

Historical and Social Roots of Extremism

By Eamon Murphy

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

This book explains the origins and nature of terrorism in Pakistan and examines the social, political and economic factors that have contributed to the rise of political violence there. Since 9/11, the state of Pakistan has come to be regarded as the epicentre of terrorist activity committed in...

Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge

Women Suicide Bombers

Narratives of Violence

By V. G. Julie Rajan

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

An Intellectual History of Terror

War, Violence and the State

By Mikkel Thorup

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

This book investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of terrorist and statist ideologists in order to reconstruct the ‘deadly dialogue’ between them. This work investigates an extensive array of violent phenomena and actors,...

Published May 25th 2010 by Routledge

Discourses and Practices of Terrorism

Interrogating Terror

Edited by Bob Brecher, Mark Devenney, Aaron Winter

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

This interdisciplinary book investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies. The approach of this book is in direct contrast with those that either view terrorism simplistically, as a clear reality threatening democratic society and thus requiring...

Published February 8th 2010 by Routledge

Contemporary State Terrorism

Theory and Practice

Edited by Richard Jackson, Eamon Murphy, Scott Poynting

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 September 8th 2009 by Routledge

State Violence and Genocide in Latin America

The Cold War Years

Edited by Marcia Esparza, Henry R. Huttenbach, Daniel Feierstein

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 September 8th 2009 by Routledge

State Terrorism and Neoliberalism

The North in the South

By Ruth Blakeley

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

This book explores the complicity of democratic states from the global North in state terrorism in the global South. It evaluates the relationship between the use of state terrorism by Northern liberal democracies and efforts by those states to further incorporate the South into the global...

Published March 26th 2009 by Routledge

Critical Terrorism Studies

A New Research Agenda

Edited by Richard Jackson, Marie Breen Smyth, Jeroen Gunning

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

In response to the growth of a critical perspective on contemporary issues of terrorism, this edited volume brings together a number of leading scholars to debate the new subfield of 'critical terrorism studies'. In the years since the 9/11 attacks, terrorism studies has undergone a major...

Published February 4th 2009 by Routledge

Terrorism and the Politics of Response

Edited by Angharad Closs Stephens, Nick Vaughan-Williams

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

This inter-disciplinary edited volume critically examines the dynamics of the War on Terror, focusing on the theme of the politics of response. The book explores both how responses to terrorism - by politicians, authorities and the media - legitimise particular forms of sovereign politics, and how...

Published October 1st 2008 by Routledge