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
Combating Terrorism in Northern Ireland
1st Edition
Edited
By James Dingley
September 11, 2014
This edited book analyses the lessons which can be drawn from Northern Ireland’s experiences of combating terrorism. The essays in this volume unite analysis and practice in exploring both the conflict in Northern Ireland and the internationally applicable counter-terrorism lessons which can be ...
The Psychology of Terrorism
2nd Edition
By John G. Horgan
June 16, 2014
This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded. The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based ...
Prisons, Terrorism and Extremism: Critical Issues in Management, Radicalisation and Reform
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Silke
February 13, 2014
This volume provides an overview of intervention and management strategies for dealing with terrorist and extremist offenders in prisons. The management of terrorist and extremist prisoners has long been recognised as a difficult problem in prisons. In most countries, such offenders are relatively...
Fault Lines in Global Jihad: Organizational, Strategic, and Ideological Fissures
1st Edition
Edited
By Assaf Moghadam, Brian Fishman
October 25, 2013
This book deals with the causes, nature, and impact of the divisions within the jihadi movement, and the splits between jihadis and other Islamic groups. Fault Lines in Global Jihad offers a systematic and comprehensive examination of the broad range of divisions that contribute to the weakening ...
Islamist Radicalisation in Europe: An Occupational Change Process
1st Edition
By Daniela Pisoiu
October 03, 2013
This book examines the Islamist radicalisation process in Europe, developing a new theoretical model based on an empirical study of the evolution of Islamist radicals in their social environment. The approach of this book is to examine how, and under what conditions, people choose to radicalise. ...
Militancy and Political Violence in Shiism: Trends and Patterns
1st Edition
Edited
By Assaf Moghadam
October 03, 2013
This book is the first systematic assessment of current trends and patterns of militancy in Shii communities in the Middle East and South Asia - specifically in Iran, Iraq, but also in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Bahrain More than thirty years after the Islamic ...
State Terrorism and Human Rights: International Responses since the End of the Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By Gillian Duncan, Orla Lynch, Gilbert Ramsay, Alison M.S. Watson
April 04, 2013
This book aims to improve understanding of the broad trends in the utilisation of political violence by examining the use of state terror in world politics. The ending of the Cold War and the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe led many to assume that this presaged the demise of the one-party...
Democracy and Terrorism: Friend or Foe?
1st Edition
By Leonard Weinberg
March 26, 2013
This book examines the relationships between democratic government and political terrorism. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States and many of its allies have declared a ‘war on terrorism’. This struggle has been inspired in part by the belief is that by promoting democracy they will also bring...
An International History of Terrorism: Western and Non-Western Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Bernhard Blumenau
February 25, 2013
The aim of this book is to provide readers with the tools to understand the historical evolution of terrorism and counterterrorism over the past 150 years. In order to appreciate the contemporary challenges posed by terrorism it is necessary to look at its evolution, at the different phases it has...
Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-Radicalisation: New Approaches to Counter-terrorism
1st Edition
Edited
By Lawrence Rubin, Rohan Gunaratna, Jolene Jerard
December 05, 2012
This book seeks to explore the new frontiers in counter-terrorism research, analyses and practice, focusing on the imperative to rehabilitate terrorists. The post-9/11 world is in a very early stage of global rehabilitation both of terrorists and criminals. Nonetheless, some correctional ...
International Aviation and Terrorism: Evolving Threats, Evolving Security
1st Edition
By John Harrison
October 02, 2012
This book examines terrorism's impact on the international aviation security regime, with a focus on the role of the United States. Tracing the historical development of the international civil aviation system, the volume examines how it has dealt with the evolving security environment caused by ...
Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism: Challenges and New Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Magnus Ranstorp, Magnus Normark
March 28, 2012
In recent years, senior policy officials have highlighted increased signs of convergence between terrorism and unconventional (CBRN) weapons. Terrorism now involves technologies available to anyone, anywhere, anytime, deployed through innovative solutions. This indicates a new and more complex ...