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  • Countering Global Terrorism and Insurgency

    Calculating the Risk of State Failure in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq

    by N. Underhill ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state failure. Using case studies of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, she develops a better understanding of the underlying causes and conditions necessary for terrorism and insurgency to occur. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • On Empire

    America, War, and Global Supremacy

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    In these four incisive and keenly perceptive essays, one of out most celebrated and respected historians of modern Europe looks at the world situation and some of the major political problems confronting us at the start of the third millennium.With his usual measured and brilliant historical perspective, Eric Hobsbawm traces the rise of American hegemony in the twenty-first century. He examines ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • New Approaches to Countering Terrorism

    Designing and Evaluating Counter Radicalization and De-Radicalization Programs

    by H. El-Said ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Hamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states. This multifaceted book provides a new approach to evaluate Counter-de-Rad Programmes and develops a holistic framework which will allow policy-makers and practitioners to design and effectively implement and assess such programmes in the future. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Terrified

    How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream

    by Chris Bail ...
    In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlash, his threat sparked violent protests across the Muslim world that left at least twenty people dead. In Terrified, Christopher Bail demonstrates ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism

    by Jonathan Barker ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    This is a highly accessible history of terrorism that looks at core examples from the Middle East, instances of state terrorism, and terrorist fringes of political movements. It covers the theories justifying and guiding terrorist acts and the battle of images that accompanies them.Jonathan Barker has taught political science at the universities of Toronto, Arizona, and Dar es Salam. He has ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Missing Martyrs

    Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists

    by Charles Kurzman ...
    Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world--many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom--why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on Islamic movements demonstrates that terrorist groups are thoroughly marginal in the Muslim world. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China

    by A. Acharya, R. Gunaratna, W. Pengxin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    While, not discounting the potency of the radical Islamic religious discourse in fuelling the contemporary wave of terrorism, this book makes an attempt to explain terrorism in China as an ethno-nationalist conflict rooted in issues involving minority identity. However, a largely domestic conflict is being hijacked by the radical Islamists. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Extremists in Our Midst

    Confronting Terror

    by Abdul Haqq Baker ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Baker provides a unique insider perspective on factors affecting British Muslim converts and their susceptibility to violent radicalisation, including firsthand accounts of convicted terrorists Richard Reid (the 'Shoe Bomber'), Zacarius Moussaoui (the 20th 9/11 bomber), and Abdullah el-Faisal who is alleged to have been a radicalising influence. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • State Violence and the Execution of Law

    Torture, Black Sites, Drones

    by Joseph Pugliese ...
    Series series Law and the Postcolonial
    State Violence and the Execution of Law stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including torture, secret imprisonment and killing-at-a-distance via drones. Analyzing the complex ways in which the United States government deploys law in order to consolidate and further imperial relations of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences

    Edited by Marco Caselli, Guia Gilardoni ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection focuses on concepts of globalization, glocalization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. The contributions provide evidence of how in practice, global dynamics and individual lives are interrelated. It presents theoretical reflections on how the local, the transnational and global dimensions of social life are entwined and construct the meaning of one another, and offers ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Terrorism, Tourism and the End of Hospitality in the 'West'

    by Maximiliano E. Korstanje ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores how the contemporary threat of terrorism is eroding the concept of hospitality in the West. Going beyond the immediate effects of terrorism that are daily portrayed in the media and have shaped the foreign policy agenda of politicians in Europe and the US, this study explores the conceptual framework of how terrorism emerged and expanded within the West and shows how it ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Juries, Science and Popular Culture in the Age of Terror

    The Case of the Sydney Bomber

    Edited by David Tait, Jane Goodman-Delahunty ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Terrorism has become an everyday reality in most contemporary societies. In a context of heightened fear can juries be trusted to remain impartial when confronted by defendants charged with terrorism? Do they scrutinize prosecution cases carefully, or does emotion trump reason once the spectre of terrorism is invoked? This book examines these questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD