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
Mapping Terrorism Research: State of the Art, Gaps and Future Direction
1st Edition
Edited
By Magnus Ranstorp
November 12, 2007
Containing essays by an array of top international scholars, this new book provides a comprehensive analytical critique of the current state of research in the terrorism and counterterrorism studies field, what it has substantively achieved over the years and where it should be heading in the ...
Homeland Security in the UK: Future Preparedness for Terrorist Attack since 9/11
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Wilkinson
July 27, 2007
This book is a detailed examination of whether domestic security measures are striking an appropriate balance between homeland security and civil liberties in the post-9/11 era. Professor Paul Wilkinson and the other contributors assess the nature of UK responses to terrorism by key public and ...
The IRA and Armed Struggle
1st Edition
By Rogelio Alonso
February 23, 2007
The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organizations in the world and conducted a ferociously violent campaign for almost thirty years. Now deeply enmeshed in the Northern Ireland peace process, Rogelio Alonso asks why one of the bloodiest terrorist movements of our time decide to swap weapons for ...
The Ideological War on Terror: Worldwide Strategies For Counter-Terrorism
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Aldis, Graeme Herd
November 20, 2006
This edited book addresses the appropriateness of US and other counter-terrorist (CT) strategies in Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region and in Latin America, with a view to improving their effectiveness. The book has three main objectives: to re-examine terrorists' ...
Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Counter-Terrorism Network
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Katona, Michael D. Intriligator, John P. Sullivan
October 30, 2006
This volume shows us that in order to deal with today’s Fourth Generation asymmetric warfare by terrorist groups using conventional arms and weapons of mass destruction, we need a new ‘global networked’ approach. The contributors examine the various attempts that have been made to counter the ...
Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism: The Globalization of Martyrdom
1st Edition
Edited
By Ami Pedahzur
August 01, 2006
This highly topical new study clearly shows how there are at least two reasons to question the central role that is assigned to religion, in particular Islam, when explaining suicide terrorism. suicide terrorism is a modern phenomenon, yet Islam is a very old religion. Except for two periods...
A War of Words: Political Violence and Public Debate in Israel
1st Edition
By Gerald Cromer
September 24, 2004
This book examines a series of controversies surrounding Israel's use of force and its failure to prevent violence. Influenced by Weber's definition of the state as the 'monopoly of violence', politcial scientists and criminologists alike have focused their attention on the legitimation struggles ...
Research on Terrorism: Trends, Achievements and Failures
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Silke
July 21, 2004
This book brings together leading international experts in the world of terrorism research and counterterrorism policy-making. It has three clear areas of focus: it looks at current issues and trends in terrorism research it explores how contemporary research on terrorism is focused and conducted...
The IRA, 1968-2000: An Analysis of a Secret Army
1st Edition
By J. Bowyer Bell
September 01, 2000
Based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as the Irish, British and Americans involved in the Troubles, the focus of this study is on the workings of an organization involved in armed struggle....
The Future of Terrorism
1st Edition
Edited
By John Horgan, Max Taylor
May 01, 2000
These papers from a meeting on terrorism in Cork in 1999 include: the effects of changing geo-politics on terrorism; strategic and tactical responses to innovations in terrorism; the changing nature of terrorism; the threat of weapons of mass destruction; and single-issue terrorism....
Aviation Terrorism and Security
1st Edition
By Paul Wilkinson, Brian Jenkins
March 01, 1999
First Published in 1999. The recent conviction of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef for plotting what prosecutors called '48 hours of terror in the sky' by conspiring to bomb a dozen US airliners, the increasing number of man portable SAM attacks on aircraft, and the recent crash of a hijacked Ethiopian airliner ...