Routledge Terrorism and Counterterrorism Titles

Contemporary Debates on Terrorism

Edited by Richard Jackson, Samuel Justin Sinclair

Contemporary Debates on Terrorism is an innovative new textbook, addressing a number of key issues in contemporary terrorism studies from both 'traditional' and 'critical' perspectives. In recent years the terrorism studies field has grown significantly, with an increasing number of scholars...

Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge

Countering the Financing of Terrorism

Edited by Thomas J. Biersteker, Sue E. Eckert

Groups committing acts of terrorism have adapted their means of financing to elude detection since the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Surveying the global community’s multi-year effort to cut off terrorist funding, this volume offers a much-needed analysis of a complex, widely discussed, yet...

Published July 12th 2007 by Routledge

Evaluating Counterterrorism Performance

A Comparative Study

By Beatrice de Graaf

Series: Contemporary Terrorism Studies

This book offers a new model for measuring the success and impact of counterterrorism strategies, using four comparative historical case studies. The effectiveness of counterterrorism measures is hard to assess, especially since the social impact of terrorist attacks is a fundamental and complex...

Published March 10th 2011 by Routledge

Explaining Terrorism

Causes, Processes and Consequences

By Martha Crenshaw

Series: Political Violence

This volume comprises some of the key essays by Professor Crenshaw, from 1972 to the present-day, on the causes, processes and consequences of terrorism. Since the early 1970s, scholars and practitioners have tried to explain terrorism and to assess the effectiveness of government responses to...

Published October 7th 2010 by Routledge

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

Female Terrorism and Militancy

Agency, Utility, and Organization

Edited by Cindy D. Ness

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This edited volume provides a window on the many forces that structure and shape why women and girls participate in terrorism and militancy, as well as on how states have come to view, treat, and strategize against them. Females who carry out terrorist acts have historically been seen as mounting...

Published August 18th 2008 by Routledge

Global Terrorism and New Media

The Post-Al Qaeda Generation

By Philip Seib, Dana M. Janbek

Series: Media, War and Security

Global Terrorism and New Media carefully examines the content of terrorist websites and extremist television programming to provide a comprehensive look at how terrorist groups use new media today. Based partly on a content analysis of discussion boards and forums, the authors share their findings...

Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge

Homeland Security in the UK

Future Preparedness for Terrorist Attack since 9/11

Edited by Paul Wilkinson

Series: Political Violence

This book is a detailed examination of whether domestic security measures are striking an appropriate balance between homeland security and civil liberties in the post-9/11 era. Professor Paul Wilkinson and the other contributors assess the nature of UK responses to terrorism by key public and...

Published June 13th 2007 by Routledge

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

Leaving Terrorism Behind

Individual and Collective Disengagement

Edited by Tore Bjorgo, John Horgan

Series: Political Violence

This new edited volume expands our understanding of the processes by which individuals and groups disengage from terrorism. While there has been a growing awareness of the need to understand and prevent processes of radicalization into terrorism, disengagement and deradicalization from terrorism...

Published November 27th 2008 by Routledge

Mapping Terrorism Research

State of the Art, Gaps and Future Direction

Edited by Magnus Ranstorp

Series: Political Violence

Containing essays by an array of top international scholars, this new book provides a comprehensive analytical critique of the current state of research in the terrorism and counterterrorism studies field, what it has substantively achieved over the years and where it should be heading in the...

Published August 30th 2007 by Routledge

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

Reconciliation after Terrorism

Strategy, possibility or absurdity?

Edited by Judith Renner, Alexander Spencer

Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

Reconciliation after Terrorism brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies, in order to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict. Although terrorist activities often play a role in...

Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge

Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism

The Globalization of Martyrdom

Edited by Ami Pedahzur

Series: Political Violence

This highly topical new study clearly shows how there are at least two reasons to question the central role that is assigned to religion, in particular Islam, when explaining suicide terrorism. suicide terrorism is a modern phenomenon, yet Islam is a very old religion. Except for two periods...

Published June 21st 2006 by Routledge

Root Causes of Terrorism

Myths, Reality and Ways Forward

Edited by Tore Bjørgo

This team of international experts analyses the possibilities and limitations of preventing or reducing terrorism by addressing the factors that give rise to it and sustain it. The key questions raised include: * what are the main circumstances that provide preconditions for the emergence of...

Published June 22nd 2005 by Routledge

Talking to Terrorists

Concessions and the Renunciation of Violence

By Carolin Goerzig

Series: Contemporary Terrorism Studies

This book examines the doctrine of giving no concessions to terrorists, and uses empirical research to establish whether there is any link between negotiating with such groups and the spread of violence. The logic of the no-concessions doctrine is based on the argument that other terrorist groups...

Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge

Terrorism Studies

A Reader

Edited by John Horgan, Kurt Braddock

This new Reader aims to guide students through some of the key readings on the subject of terrorism and political violence. In an age when there is more written about terrorism than anyone can possibly read in a lifetime, it has become increasingly difficult for students and scholars to navigate...

Published July 13th 2011 by Routledge

Terrorism Versus Democracy

The Liberal State Response, 3rd Edition

By Paul Wilkinson

Series: Political Violence

This book examines the terrorist networks that operate globally and analyses the long-term future of terrorism and terrorist-backed insurgencies. Terrorism remains a serious problem for the international community. The global picture does not indicate that the ‘war on terror’, which President...

Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge

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

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 20th 2012 by Routledge

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

The Evolving EU Counter-terrorism Legal Framework

By Maria O'Neill

Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

Since the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, and the contemporaneous publication of the Stockholm Programme, the area of freedom, security and justice has obtained a more secure legal basis within the EU treaty framework and now has a coherent policy programme set out for its...

Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge

The Psychology of Counter-Terrorism

Edited by Andrew Silke

Series: Political Violence

This edited book explores how psychology can be used to improve our understanding of terrorism and counterterrorism. This work firstly aims to provide balanced and objective insight into the psychology of terrorists; what their motivations are, what keeps them involved in terrorist groups, and...

Published October 21st 2010 by Routledge

The Psychology of Terrorism

By John Horgan, John Horgan

Series: Political Violence

To understand the psychology of those who engage in terrorism, John Horgan draws on interviews with terrorists and analyzes current evidence to argue that only by asking the right questions about this complex problem, and by answering them with evidence, can we truly begin to understand the nature...

Published June 8th 2005 by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

Edited by Paul B. Rich, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

This new handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of academic analysis and debate on insurgency and counterinsurgency, as well as an-up-to date survey of contemporary insurgent movements and counter-insurgencies. In recent years, and more specifically since the insurgency in...

Published January 10th 2012 by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research

Edited by Alex Schmid

This major new Handbook synthesises more than two decades of scholarly research, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field of terrorism studies. The content of the Handbook is based on the responses to a questionnaire by nearly 100 experts from more than 20 countries as well as the...

Published February 23rd 2011 by Routledge

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

Understanding Terrorist Innovation

Technology, Tactics and Global Trends

By Adam Dolnik

Series: Contemporary Terrorism Studies

This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical trends in terrorist innovation, as well as...

Published April 4th 2007 by Routledge

Walking Away from Terrorism

Accounts of Disengagement from Radical and Extremist Movements

By John Horgan

Series: Political Violence

This accessible new book looks at how and why individuals leave terrorist movements, and considers the lessons and implications that emerge from this process. Focusing on the tipping points for disengagement from groups such as Al Qaeda, the IRA and the UVF, this volume is...

Published May 10th 2009 by Routledge