Contemporary Terrorism Studies
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 ...
Conducting Terrorism Field Research: A Guide
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Dolnik
April 19, 2013
This book offers a detailed and practically oriented guide to the challenges of conducting terrorist fieldwork. The past decade has seen an explosion of research into terrorism. However, field research on terrorism has traditionally been surrounded by many myths, and has been called anything from "...
Targeting Terrorist Financing: International Cooperation and New Regimes
1st Edition
By Arabinda Acharya
October 02, 2012
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 ...
International Terrorism Post-9/11: Comparative Dynamics and Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Asaf Siniver
March 29, 2012
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...
Managing Terrorism and Insurgency: Regeneration, Recruitment and Attrition
1st Edition
By Cameron I. Crouch
March 29, 2012
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 ...
Talking to Terrorists: Concessions and the Renunciation of Violence
1st Edition
By Carolin Goerzig
February 20, 2012
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 ...
Religion and Political Violence: Sacred Protest in the Modern World
1st Edition
By Jennifer L. Jefferis
March 14, 2011
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 ...