1st Edition
Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence The 'War on Terror' as Terror
Introduction, Scott Poynting and David Whyte 1. Counterterrorism as Counterinsurgency in the UK ‘War on Terror’, David Miller and Rizwaan Sabir 2. Shoot-To-Kill Counter-Suicide Terrorism: Anatomy of Undemocratic Policing, Graham Smith 3. British Counter-insurgency Practice in Northern Ireland in the 1970s – A Legitimate Response or State Terror?, Paul O’Connor and Alan Brecknell 4. Masters of Terror, Noam Chomsky 5. The Great Game, John Pilger 6. One More Successful War? Tamil Diaspora and Counter-Terrorism after the LTTE, Vicki Sentas 7. ‘No permission to shoot in Gaza is necessary’: Israeli State Terror against Palestinians in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, Victoria Mason 8. Untouchable Compradores? Colombian State Narco-Terrorism and the People’s Struggle for National Liberation, Oliver Villar 9. The Criminalisation of Anti-Colonial Struggle in Puerto Rico, José M. Atiles-Osoria 10.‘War on Terror’ and Spanish State Violence Against Basque Political Dissent, Pablo Ciocchini and Stephanie Khoury 11. Indonesian State Terror in Timor-Leste and West Papua, Elizabeth Stanley 12. Al Qaeda in the West, for the West, Jeremy H. Keenan
Biography
Scott Poynting is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-author of, among other books, Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other (Sydney Institute of Criminology, 2004) and Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and Crime (Pluto Press, 2000).
David Whyte is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is co-author of Safety Crimes (Willan, 2007), co-editor of Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful (Peter Lang, 2003) and author of State, Crime, Power (Sage, 2009).
