Contemporary Terrorism Studies
Hamas, Popular Support and War in the Middle East: Insurgency in the Holy Land
1st Edition
By Richard Davis
June 16, 2017
This book offers a new understanding of the nature of power-seeking insurgent groups by empirically examining the use of violence by Hamas in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Though Hamas has learned to ride the tides of popular support, it remains suspended between its quest to achieve the values...
Understanding Lone Actor Terrorism: Past Experience, Future Outlook, and Response Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Fredholm
June 16, 2017
This volume examines the lone actor terrorist phenomenon, including the larger societal trends which may or may not have led to their acts of terrorism. With lone actor terrorism becoming an increasingly common threat, the contributors to this volume aim to answer the following questions: What ...
Social Networks, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism: Radical and Connected
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Bouchard
February 01, 2017
This book examines two key themes in terrorism studies, the radicalization process and counter-terrorism policies, through the lens of social networks. The book aims to show that networks should be at the forefront not only when analysing terrorists, but also when assessing the responses to their ...
Al Qaeda’s Global Crisis: The Islamic State, Takfir and the Genocide of Muslims
1st Edition
By V. G. Julie Rajan
August 23, 2016
This book focuses on the crises facing Al Qaeda and how the mass killing of Muslims is challenging its credibility as a leader among Islamist jihadist organizations. The book argues that these crises are directly related to Al Qaeda’s affiliation with the extreme violence employed against Muslims ...
Radicalization in Western Europe: Integration, Public Discourse and Loss of Identity among Muslim Communities
1st Edition
By Carolin Görzig, Khaled Al-Hashimi
June 28, 2016
Employing a theoretical framework based on the concept of identity loss, this book seeks to understand why increased integration has stimulated greater radicalization among the Muslim populations in Western Europe. Through extensive field research in four European countries – the UK, the ...
Putting Terrorism in Context: Lessons from the Global Terrorism Database
1st Edition
By Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan, Erin Miller
April 11, 2016
This book offers a guide to interpreting available statistical data on terrorism attacks around the world. The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) now includes more than 113,000 terrorist attacks, starting in 1970. By analyzing these data, researchers demonstrate how a very small number of terrorist ...
US-UK Counter-Terrorism after 9/11: A qualitative approach
1st Edition
By Edgar Tembo
July 16, 2015
This book provides a qualitative analysis of post-9/11 counter-terrorism strategy undertaken by the United Kingdom and United States of America. Since 9/11, both the UK and the U.S have significantly revamped their counter-terrorism approaches. The approaches apply, to varying degrees, three key ...
Freedom and Terror: Reason and Unreason in Politics
1st Edition
By Gabriel Weimann, Abraham Kaplan
September 11, 2014
This book examines reason and unreason in the legal and political responses to terrorism. Terrorism is often perceived as sheer madness, unreasonable use of extreme violence and senseless, futile political action. These assertions are challenged by this book. Combining ‘traditional’ thought (by ...
The Evolution of EU Counter-Terrorism: European Security Policy after 9/11
1st Edition
By Raphael Bossong
September 11, 2014
This book traces the evolution of the EU’s fight against terrorism from the late 1970s until the end of the first decade after 9/11. This historical analysis covers both EU-internal and international counterterrorism policies and features an in-depth account of the EU’s reaction to the terrorist ...
Transforming Violent Political Movements: Rebels today, what tomorrow?
1st Edition
By Kevin E. Grisham
March 13, 2014
This book explores the factors that influence violent rebellious political organisations to transform into other entities, such as political parties, criminal organisations and terrorist organisations. From the end of the Second World War until 1990, many events in the world centred on the ...
Evaluating Counterterrorism Performance: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Beatrice de Graaf
October 03, 2013
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 ...
The EU and Counter-Terrorism: Politics, Polity and Policies after 9/11
1st Edition
By Javier Argomaniz
October 03, 2013
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 ...