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.
The UN and Counter-Terrorism: Global Hegemonies, Power and Identities
1st Edition
By Alice Martini
August 29, 2022
This book traces the evolution of the UN Security Council’s actions against terrorism and extremism. The work examines the progression of the UN Security Council’s fight against international terrorism and its development of practices to prevent radicalisation and extremism. It also looks at the ...
Bringing Normativity into Critical Terrorism Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Alice Martini
March 01, 2022
This book explores and inquiries into the interrelation between normativity and Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) from a wide range of critical views. The volume draws together authors with very different positions and understandings of normativity and policy-implementations in relation to ...
Unknowing the ‘War on Terror’: The Pleasures of Risk
1st Edition
By Tina Managhan
February 17, 2020
This book offers new insights into the excesses and uncanniness of the ‘War on Terror’ via an engagement with the pleasures of risk. Engaging with the unconscious, the excess, the uncanny and the spectacular dimensions of the ‘War on Terror’ – as made evident, for example, in the 2012 London ...
A Critical Theory of Counterterrorism: Ontology, Epistemology and Normativity
1st Edition
By Sondre Lindahl
January 14, 2020
This book offers a theory and model of counterterrorism based on emancipation and non-violence. Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) scholars have produced wide-ranging and rich critiques of terrorism-related research, as well as state counterterrorism policies and practices. This work aims to fill in...
De-Radicalisation in the UK Prevent Strategy: Security, Identity and Religion
1st Edition
By M. S. Elshimi
August 14, 2018
This book examines de-radicalisation policy in the UK and addresses the contradictions evident in the conceptualisation and practice of de-radicalisation. It explores three main themes that touch upon some of the most pressing issues of our day: security, identity and religion. Situated within the ...
Russia's Securitization of Chechnya: How War Became Acceptable
1st Edition
By Julie Wilhelmsen
March 14, 2018
This book provides an in-depth analysis of how mobilization and legitimation for war are made possible, with a focus on Russia's conflict with Chechnya. Through which processes do leaders and their publics come to define and accept certain conflicts as difficult to engage in, and others as logical,...
Terrorism, Talking and Transformation: A Critical Approach
1st Edition
By Harmonie Toros
February 12, 2018
Using rare field research, this book investigates whether and how talking may transform terrorist violence. Given the failings of today’s dominant counterterrorism strategy, is talking a viable policy option to transform conflicts marked by terrorist violence? This book examines the reasons why "...
Hamas, Jihad and Popular Legitimacy: Reinterpreting Resistance in Palestine
1st Edition
By Tristan Dunning
June 16, 2017
This book investigates the many faces of Hamas and examines its ongoing evolution as a resistance organisation in the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Specifically, the work interrogates Hamas’ interpretation, reinterpretation and application of the twin concepts of muqawama (resistance) ...
Ending ETA's Armed Campaign: How and Why the Basque Armed Group Abandoned Violence
1st Edition
By Imanol Murua
November 23, 2016
This book explains how and why the Basque separatist armed group ETA decided to end its armed campaign against the Spanish state. The ETA’s armed campaign for Basque independence lasted fifty years and led to more than 800 casualties. This book analyzes the factors that led to ETA ending its ...
Counter-Radicalisation: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Christopher Baker-Beall, Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Lee Jarvis
October 10, 2016
This book offers a wide-ranging and critical examination of recent counter-radicalisation policies, using case studies from several countries. Counter-radicalisation policies, such as the UK ‘Prevent’ strategy, have been highly controversial and increasingly criticised since their introduction. In ...
Critical Perspectives on Counter-terrorism
1st Edition
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By Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister
August 23, 2016
This volume examines the rationale, effectiveness and consequences of counter terrorism practices from a range of perspectives and cases. The book critically interrogates contemporary counter-terrorism powers from military campaigns and repression through to the prosecution of terrorist suspects, ...
Lessons and Legacies of the War On Terror: From moral panic to permanent war
1st Edition
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By Gershon Shafir, Everard Meade, William Aceves
May 31, 2016
This volume examines the lessons and legacies of the U.S.-led "Global War on Terror," utilizing the framework of a political "moral panic." A decade after 9/11, it is increasingly difficult to deny that terror has prevailed – not as a specific enemy, but as a way of life. Transport, trade, and ...