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1. Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism

   Challenges and New Approaches

   Edited by Magnus Ranstorp, Magnus Normark

   Series: Political Violence

   In recent years, senior policy officials have highlighted increased signs of convergence between terrorism and unconventional (CBRN) weapons. Terrorism now involves technologies available to anyone, anywhere, anytime, deployed through innovative solutions. This indicates a new and more complex...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Terrorism and the Olympics

   Major Event Security and Lessons for the Future

   Edited by Anthony Richards, Peter Fussey, Andrew Silke

   Series: Political Violence

   The book aims to outline the progress, problems and challenges of delivering a safe and secure Olympics in the context of the contemporary serious and enduring terrorist threat. The enormous media profile and symbolic significance of the Olympic Games, the history of terrorists aiming to use such...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. International Aviation and Terrorism

   Evolving Threats, Evolving Security

   By John Harrison

   Series: Political Violence

   This book examines terrorism's impact on the international aviation security regime, with a focus on the role of the United States. Tracing the historical development of the international civil aviation system, the volume examines how it has dealt with the evolving security environment caused by...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism

   Terrorism’s Fifth Wave

   By Jeffrey Kaplan

   Series: Political Violence

   The central focus of this book is a small but vitally important group of movements that constitute a distinct 'fifth wave' of modern terrorism, here called the "New Tribalism". Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism examines a collection of terrorist or insurgent movements whose similarity...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
5. Terrorism, Identity and Legitimacy

   The Four Waves theory and political violence

   Edited by Jean E. Rosenfeld

   Series: Political Violence

   This book argues that terrorism in the modern world has occurred in four "waves" of forty years each. It offers evidence-based explanations of terrorism, national identity, and political legitimacy by leading scholars from various disciplines with contrasting perspectives on political violence....

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
6. Militancy and Political Violence in Shiism

   Trends and Patterns

   Edited by Assaf Moghadam

   Series: Political Violence

   This book is the first systematic assessment of current trends and patterns of militancy in Shii communities in the Middle East and South Asia - specifically in Iran, Iraq, but also in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Bahrain More than thirty years after the Islamic...

   Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Islamist Radicalisation in Europe

   An Occupational Change Process

   By Daniela Pisoiu

   Series: Political Violence

   This book examines the Islamist radicalisation process in Europe, developing a new theoretical model based on an empirical study of the evolution of Islamist radicals in their social environment. The approach of this book is to examine how, and under what conditions, people choose to radicalise....

   Published June 30th 2011 by Routledge
8. Negotiating with Terrorists

   Strategy, Tactics, and Politics

   By Guy Olivier Faure, I. William Zartman

   Series: Political Violence

   This edited volume addresses the important issue of negotiating with terrorists, and offers recommendations for best practice and processes. Hostage negotiation is the process of trying to align two often completely polarised parties. Authorities view hostage taking as unacceptable demands made...

   Published June 5th 2011 by Routledge
9. Fault Lines in Global Jihad

   Organizational, Strategic, and Ideological Fissures

   Edited by Assaf Moghadam, Brian Fishman

   Series: Political Violence

   This book deals with the causes, nature, and impact of the divisions within the jihadi movement, and the splits between jihadis and other Islamic groups. Fault Lines in Global Jihad offers a systematic and comprehensive examination of the broad range of divisions that contribute to the weakening...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
10. Irish Republican Terrorism and Politics

    A Comparative Study of the Official and the Provisional IRA

    By Kacper Rekawek

    Series: Political Violence

    This book examines the post-ceasefire evolutions and histories of the main Irish republican terrorist factions, and the interconnected character of politics and militarism within them. Offering the first comparative study of the two leading Irish republican terrorist movements the Official IRA and...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge