Contemporary Terrorism Studies
The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements
1st Edition
By Omar Ashour
July 06, 2010
This book is the first detailed study of the causes of de-radicalization in armed Islamist movements. It is based on frontline research that includes interviews with Jihadist leaders, mid-ranking commanders, and young sympathizers, as well as former security and intelligence officers and state ...
The Psychology of Strategic Terrorism: Public and Government Responses to Attack
1st Edition
By Ben Sheppard
December 21, 2009
This new volume explores terrorism and strategic terror, examining how the public responds to terrorist attacks, and what authorities can do in such situations. The book uses a unique interdisciplinary approach, which combines the behavioural sciences and international relations, in order to ...
Women and Terrorism: Female Activity in Domestic and International Terror Groups
1st Edition
By Margaret Gonzalez-Perez
November 26, 2009
This book examines the relationship between women and terrorist activities in the post-World War II era. Utilizing comparative research into 26 terrorist organizations world-wide, the work identifies a dichotomy whereby women are significantly more active in domestic terrorist organizations than in...
Understanding Terrorist Innovation: Technology, Tactics and Global Trends
1st Edition
By Adam Dolnik
June 29, 2009
This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical trends in terrorist innovation, as well as ...
The Strategy of Terrorism: How it Works, and Why it Fails
1st Edition
By Peter R. Neumann, M.L.R. Smith
March 05, 2009
This is the first book to set out a comprehensive framework by which to understand terrorism as strategy. It contends that even terrorism of the supposedly nihilist variety can be viewed as a bona fide method for distributing means to fulfil the ends of policy, that is, as a strategy. The main ...