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1. Democracy and Terrorism

   Friend or Foe?

   By Leonard Weinberg

   Series: Political Violence

   This book examines the relationships between democratic government and political terrorism. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States and many of its allies have declared a ‘war on terrorism’. This struggle has been inspired in part by the belief is that by promoting democracy they will also bring...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. The End of Terrorism?

   By Leonard Weinberg

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   This book considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end. Terrorism as a tactic is unlikely to disappear, however virtually all the groups that employed terrorist violence during the 1960s and 1970s have passed from the scene in one way or another....

   Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
3. Political Parties and Terrorist Groups

   By Leonard Weinberg, Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   This book is the definitive guide to the topical issue of the relationship between political parties that embrace the democratic process and terrorist groups which eschew the legal and procedural strictures of democracy. The fully revised edition continues to provide the most detailed theoretical...

   Published November 3rd 2008 by Routledge
4. Democratic Responses To Terrorism

   Edited by Leonard Weinberg

   Series: Democracy and Terrorism

   Democratic Responses to Terrorism tackles how to protect democratic societies against terrorist violence while, at the same time, making sure that the steps democracies take to protect themselves do no fundamental harm to the rule of law and the rights of citizens. With a foreword by Fernando...

   Published December 25th 2007 by Routledge
5. Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism

   Edited by Ami Pedahzur, Leonard Weinberg

   This book explores the relationships between fundamentalist religious belief, political extremism and outbreaks of religiously inspired violence. Is the post-Cold War world increasingly violent and is this violence the result of strident religious understandings of how societies should be organized?...

   Published March 24th 2004 by Routledge
6. Political Parties and Terrorist Groups

   By Ami Pedahzur, Leonard Weinberg

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   What is the relationship between the political parties that embrace the democratic process and terrorist groups, which eschew the legal and procedural strictures of democracy?This acclaimed volume provides a detailed theoretical and empirical analysis of this controversial issue. Drawing...

   Published September 17th 2003 by Routledge
7. Right-wing Extremism in the Twenty-first Century

   Edited by Peter Merkl, Weinberg LEONARD

   Revising the 1997 first edition, this study covers events that occurred in Oldham and Bradford after the year 2000. The rise of right-wing extremist groups is put under scrutiny in a number of states including Britain, Germany, Austria, Russia and France....

   Published March 31st 2003 by Routledge
8. The Democratic Experience and Political Violence

   Edited by David C. Rapoport, Leonard Weinberg

   An incisive analysis of the connections between democracy and violence by acknowledged experts in the field. The connection between the two activities has often been largely ignored because of a widespread reluctance among democrats to consider the possibility that democratic forms ...

   Published April 30th 2001 by Routledge
9. The Revival of Right Wing Extremism in the Nineties

   Edited by Peter H. Merkl, Leonard Weinberg

   Most studies of the radical right concentrate on movements in a single country, neglecting to some extent the international dimensions of right-wing extremism. Here, Merkl and Weinberg adopt a comparative perspective, concentrating on the revival of the right across a variety of countries....

   Published May 30th 1997 by Routledge