Political Violence
About the Book Series
This book series contains sober, thoughtful and authoritative academic accounts of terrorism and political violence. Its aim is to produce a useful taxonomy of terror and violence through comparative and historical analysis in both national and international spheres. Each book discusses origins, organisational dynamics and outcomes of particular forms and expressions of political violence.
Founding Editor: David Rapoport
Prosecuting Political Violence: Collaborative Research and Method
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Loadenthal
February 25, 2021
This volume unpacks the multidimensional realities of political violence, and how these crimes are dealt with throughout the US judicial system, using a mixed methods approach. The work seeks to challenge the often-noted problems with mainstream terrorism research, namely an overreliance on ...
Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: Designing and Evaluating Evidence-Based Programs
1st Edition
By Michael J. Williams
October 30, 2020
This textbook serves as a guide to design and evaluate evidence-based programs intended to prevent or counter violent extremism (P/CVE). Violent extremism and related hate crimes are problems which confront societies in virtually every region of the world; this text examines how we can prevent or ...
Secessionism and Terrorism: Bombs, Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia
1st Edition
Edited
By Glen Duerr
September 30, 2020
This book examines secessionist terrorism in a comparative context across Europe and Eurasia. The volume seeks to uncover comparative linkages between terrorism and secessionism; specifically examining terrorist organizations that also have a political goal of independence. It examines a wide range...
Understanding Terrorism and Political Violence: The Life Cycle of Birth, Growth, Transformation, and Demise
2nd Edition
By Dipak K. Gupta
September 23, 2020
This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and uses it to analyze the forces shaping the life cycle of violent political movements. This new edition has been revised and updated, with three new chapters added. The second edition takes us deeper inside human ...
Apocalypse, Revolution and Terrorism: From the Sicari to the American Revolt against the Modern World
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Kaplan
September 18, 2018
This book focuses on religiously driven oppositional violence through the ages. Beginning with the 1st-century Sicari, it examines the commonalities that link apocalypticism, revolution, and terrorism occurring in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam past and present. It is divided into two sections, ...
Terrorist Histories: Individuals and Political Violence since the 19th Century
1st Edition
By Caoimhe Nic Dhaibheid
May 04, 2018
This book addresses provides a series of in-depth portraits of men and women who have been labelled ‘terrorists’, from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Bridging historical methodologies and theoretical approaches to terrorism studies, it seeks to contribute to the developing ...
Understanding Terrorism Innovation and Learning: Al-Qaeda and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Magnus Ranstorp, Magnus Normark
November 07, 2016
This book examines the role of terrorist innovation and learning in theory and practice, and in the context of three specific EU case-studies. It is often said that terrorist groups are relatively conservative in character operating in a technological vacuum – relying almost exclusively on bombs ...
Understanding Apocalyptic Terrorism: Countering the Radical Mindset
1st Edition
By Frances L. Flannery
October 26, 2016
This book explores a cross-cultural worldview called 'radical apocalypticism' that underlies the majority of terrorist movements in the twenty-first century. Although not all apocalypticism is violent, in its extreme forms radical apocalypticism gives rise to terrorists as varied as members of Al ...
Evolutionary Psychology and Terrorism
1st Edition
Edited
By Max Taylor, Ken Pease, Jason Roach
September 14, 2016
This book explores the evolutionary context of terrorism and political violence. While evolutionary thinking has come to permeate both biological and social-science theorising, it has not yet been applied systematically to the areas of terrorism and political violence. This volume seeks to do this...
Lone-Actor Terrorists: A behavioural analysis
1st Edition
By Paul Gill
August 23, 2016
This book provides the first empirical analysis of lone-actor terrorist behaviour. Based upon a unique dataset of 111 lone actors that catalogues the life span of the individual’s development, the book contains important insights into what an analysis of their behaviours might imply for practical ...
Victims of Terrorism: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Orla Lynch, Javier Argomaniz
July 19, 2016
This book examines the politicisation of victims of terrorism and the reality of the victimisation experience within the broader field of terrorism and the resulting conflict. Victims of terrorism are a unique group of individuals whose experience is overlooked in the current literature on ...
Irish Republican Terrorism and Politics: A Comparative Study of the Official and the Provisional IRA
1st Edition
By Kacper Rekawek
November 10, 2014
This book examines the post-ceasefire evolutions and histories of the main Irish republican terrorist factions, and the interconnected character of politics and militarism within them. Offering the first comparative study of the two leading Irish republican terrorist movements the Official IRA and...