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.
Arguing Counterterrorism: New perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniela Pisoiu
July 22, 2015
This book offers a multifaceted, analytical account of counterterrorism argumentative speech. Traditionally, existing scholarship in this field of research has taken a selective focus on issues and actors, concentrating mainly on US state discourse after 9/11. However, this approach ignores the ...
States of War since 9/11: Terrorism, Sovereignty and the War on Terror
1st Edition
Edited
By Alex Houen
July 22, 2015
This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in ‘rogue’ states, ‘outsourcing’ of state militancy and the mutable state of ...
Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror
1st Edition
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By Bob Brecher, Mark Devenney, Aaron Winter
April 09, 2015
This interdisciplinary book investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies. The approach of this book is in direct contrast with those that either view terrorism simplistically, as a clear reality threatening democratic society and thus requiring ...
The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and Social Roots of Extremism
1st Edition
By Eamon Murphy
September 11, 2014
This book explains the origins and nature of terrorism in Pakistan and examines the social, political and economic factors that have contributed to the rise of political violence there. Since 9/11, the state of Pakistan has come to be regarded as the epicentre of terrorist activity committed in ...
Selling the War on Terror: Foreign Policy Discourses after 9/11
1st Edition
By Jack Holland
May 30, 2014
This book uses a comparative analysis to examine foreign policy discourses and the dynamics of the ‘War on Terror'. The book considers the three principal members of the Coalition of the Willing in Afghanistan and Iraq: the United States, Britain and Australia. Despite significant cultural, ...
Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence: The 'War on Terror' as Terror
1st Edition
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By Scott Poynting, David Whyte
November 08, 2013
This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power through a series of case studies of political violence arising from state ‘counter-terrorism’ strategies. The book examines how state counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror, in the form of state political...
An Intellectual History of Terror: War, Violence and the State
1st Edition
By Mikkel Thorup
March 29, 2012
This book investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of terrorist and statist ideologists in order to reconstruct the ‘deadly dialogue’ between them. This work investigates an extensive array of violent phenomena and actors, ...
Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence
1st Edition
By V. G. Julie Rajan
March 21, 2012
This book offers an evaluation of female suicide bombers through postcolonial, Third World, feminist, and human-rights framework, drawing on case studies from conflicts in Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Chechnya, among others. Women Suicide Bombers explores why cultural, media and political reports ...
State Terrorism and Neoliberalism: The North in the South
1st Edition
By Ruth Blakeley
October 11, 2011
This book explores the complicity of democratic states from the global North in state terrorism in the global South. It evaluates the relationship between the use of state terrorism by Northern liberal democracies and efforts by those states to further incorporate the South into the global ...
Contemporary State Terrorism: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Richard Jackson, Eamon Murphy, Scott Poynting
March 14, 2011
This volume aims to ‘bring the state back into terrorism studies’ and fill the notable gap that currently exists in our understanding of the ways in which states employ terrorism as a political strategy of internal governance or foreign policy. Within this broader context, the volume has a number ...
State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years
1st Edition
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By Marcia Esparza, Henry R. Huttenbach, Daniel Feierstein
March 14, 2011
This edited volume explores political violence and genocide in Latin America during the Cold War, examining this in light of the United States’ hegemonic position on the continent. Using case studies based on the regimes of Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Peru and Uruguay, this book shows how ...
Terrorism and the Politics of Response
1st Edition
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By Angharad Closs Stephens, Nick Vaughan-Williams
December 06, 2010
This inter-disciplinary edited volume critically examines the dynamics of the War on Terror, focusing on the theme of the politics of response. The book explores both how responses to terrorism - by politicians, authorities and the media - legitimise particular forms of sovereign politics, and how ...