Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

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1. Lessons and Legacies of the War On Terror

   From moral panic to permanent war

   Edited by Gershon Shafir, Everard Meade, William Aceves

   Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

   This volume examines the lessons and legacies of the U.S.-led "Global War on Terror," utilizing the framework of a political "moral panic." A decade after 9/11, it is increasingly difficult to deny that terror has prevailed – not as a specific enemy, but as a way of life. Transport, trade, and...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan

   Historical and Social Roots of Extremism

   By Eamon Murphy

   Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

   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...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Selling the War on Terror

   Foreign Policy Discourses after 9/11

   By Jack Holland

   Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

   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,...

   Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence

   The 'War on Terror' as Terror

   Edited by Scott Poynting, David Whyte

   Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

   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...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. An Intellectual History of Terror

   War, Violence and the State

   By Mikkel Thorup

   Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

   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,...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. Women Suicide Bombers

   Narratives of Violence

   By V.G. Julie Rajan

   Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

   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...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Terrorism, Talking and Transformation

   A Critical Approach

   By Harmonie Toros

   Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

   Using rare field research, this book investigates whether and how talking may transform terrorist violence. Given the failings of today’s dominant counterterrorism strategy, is talking a viable policy option to transform conflicts marked by terrorist violence? This book examines the reasons why "...

   Published February 16th 2012 by Routledge
8. State Terrorism and Neoliberalism

   The North in the South

   By Ruth Blakeley

   Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

   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...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
9. Contemporary State Terrorism

   Theory and Practice

   Edited by Richard Jackson, Eamon Murphy, Scott Poynting

   Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

   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...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
10. State Violence and Genocide in Latin America

    The Cold War Years

    Edited by Marcia Esparza, Henry R. Huttenbach, Daniel Feierstein

    Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

    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...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge