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.
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 ...
Writing Southeast Asian Security: Regional Security and the War on Terror after 9/11
1st Edition
By Jennifer Mustapha
May 31, 2023
This book is a critical analysis of how the discursive and material practices of the "War on Terror" influenced security politics in Southeast Asia after 9/11.It explores how the US-led War on Terror, operating both as a set of material practices and as a larger discursive framework for security, ...
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 ...
Constructing the Cyberterrorist: Critical Reflections on the UK Case
1st Edition
By Gareth Mott
June 30, 2021
This book maps and analyses the official British construction of the threat of cyberterrorism.By using interpretive discourse analysis, this book identifies ‘strands’ from a corpus of policy documents, statements, and speeches from UK Ministers, MPs, and Peers between 12 May 2010 and 24 June 2016. ...
Narratives of Political Violence: Life Stories of Former Militants
1st Edition
By Raquel da Silva
March 31, 2021
An exploration of how political violence is constructed, this book presents the life stories of individuals once committed to political transformation through violent means in Portugal.Challenging simplistic conceptualisations about the actors of violence, this book examines issues of temporality, ...
Islam and Sectarian Violence in Pakistan: The Terror Within
1st Edition
By Eamon Murphy
June 30, 2020
This book analyses the growth of sectarian-based terrorist violence in Pakistan, one of the Muslim majority states most affected by sectarian violence, ever since it was established in 1947.Sectarian violence among Muslims has emerged as a major global security problem in recent years. The author ...
Researching Terrorism, Peace and Conflict Studies: Interaction, Synthesis and Opposition
1st Edition
Edited
By Ioannis Tellidis, Harmonie Toros
June 30, 2020
This book examines potential synergies between the fields of Terrorism Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies. The volume presents theoretically- and empirically-informed contributions, which shed light on whether the two fields can inform each other on issues of mutual interest and importance. The...
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,...