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.
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
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agenda
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Jackson, Marie Breen Smyth, Jeroen Gunning
November 20, 2009
In response to the growth of a critical perspective on contemporary issues of terrorism, this edited volume brings together a number of leading scholars to debate the new subfield of 'critical terrorism studies'. In the years since the 9/11 attacks, terrorism studies has undergone a major ...