Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
About the Book Series
This book series will publish rigorous and innovative studies on all aspects of terrorism, counter-terrorism and state terror. It seeks to advance a new generation of thinking on traditional subjects, investigate topics frequently overlooked in orthodox accounts of terrorism and to apply knowledge from disciplines beyond International Relations and Security Studies. Books in this series will typically adopt approaches informed by critical-normative theory, post-positivist methodologies and non-Western perspectives, as well as rigorous and reflective orthodox terrorism studies.
Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in a Postcolonial Context: Security, Democracy, and Religion in Tunisia
1st Edition
By Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu
August 01, 2025
This book examines how global policies designed to prevent extremism have shaped religious and security governance in Tunisia in recent years, focusing on local programmes for training imams. By tracing the evolution of security measures in Tunisia from the colonial era to today, this book ...
The Normalisation of Exceptional Counterterrorism Powers: Framing The Terrorist Threat in France
1st Edition
By Marine Guéguin
June 30, 2025
This book investigates the framing of the terrorist threat in France from 2015 to 2020 as an ‘exceptional’ challenge which requires a ‘special’ public security response. The book examines how French political actors framed the terrorist threat in French political discourse from an exceptional ...
Islamic State, Biopolitics and Media Governmentality: The Dispositif of Terror
1st Edition
By Lewis Rarm
June 27, 2025
This book analyses the Islamic State’s (IS) media and governance strategy from a critical media and cultural studies perspective. It deploys Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblage and Foucault’s theories of dispositif (dispositive, apparatus) and biopower to understand the ways in which IS ...
Methodologies in Critical Terrorism Studies: Gaps and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Alice E. Finden, Carlos Yebra López, Tarela Ike, Ugo Gaudino, Samwel Oando
May 06, 2025
This interdisciplinary book presents an intervention into methodological practices in the subfield of Critical Terrorism Studies, and features established and early career scholars. The volume interrogates the role that research methods play in shaping the sub-discipline of Critical Terrorism ...
Understanding Spanish Jihadist Terrorism: The Ideology Behind the Metaphors
1st Edition
By Carlos Yebra López
February 26, 2025
This book offers the first systematic account in English of the Spanish mass press coverage of ‘jihadist terrorist’ attacks in contemporary Spain. Drawing upon a critical analysis of the ‘Spanish Transition to Democracy’ (1975–82) and ‘War on Terror’ narratives, it examines the ideology underlying ...
Hindu Nationalism and Terrorism in India: The Saffron Threat to Democracy
1st Edition
By Eamon Murphy
October 08, 2024
This book discusses terrorism and the rise of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and examines how this movement has become a threat to democracy in the country. The work analyses the rise of Hindu nationalism, culminating in the success of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the ...
Public Opinion and Counter-Terrorism: Security and Politics in the UK
1st Edition
By Michael Lister
October 08, 2024
This book examines the ways in which the views of the public inhabit the counter-terrorism policy space, with a focus on the UK case. Drawing insights from Critical Terrorism Studies, Critical Security Studies and studies of public opinion, the book develops an argument that the relationship ...
Contemporary Reflections on Critical Terrorism Studies
1st Edition
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By Alice Martini, Raquel Da Silva
October 04, 2024
Bringing together established and emerging voices in Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS), this book offers fresh and dynamic reflections on CTS and envisages possible lines of future research and ways forward. The volume is structured in three sections. The first opens a space for intellectual ...
Making Sense of Radicalization and Violent Extremism: Interviews and Conversations
1st Edition
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By Mitja Sardoč
May 27, 2024
This volume brings together interviews with leading scholars to discuss some of the most important issues associated with radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism. The overall aim of these interviews is to move beyond the ‘conventional wisdom’ over radicalization and violent extremism best ...
Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk
1st Edition
By Saira Ali
May 27, 2024
This book offers an East-West comparative analysis of mediatised terrorism. This is the first country-specific analysis of the mediatisation of terrorism, with Pakistan and Australia representing the two worlds, respectively. Caught up in the ‘9/11 effect’, Australia is known for its anti-terror ‘...
China’s Soft War on Terror: Space-Making Processes of Securitization
1st Edition
By Tianyang Liu
September 25, 2023
This book explores how the Chinese government reasserts its control and management of public spaces as part of its overall counter-terrorism strategy. The work focuses primarily on the banal and alternative forms that China’s ‘war on terror’ takes: the everyday, non-military, socio-economic and ...
Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror
1st Edition
By Ahmed M. Abozaid
September 25, 2023
This book reveals how counterterrorism discourses and practices became the main tool of a systematic violation of human rights in Egypt after the Arab Uprising. It examines how the civic and democratic uprising in Egypt turned into robust authoritarianism under the pretence of counterterrorism and ...