Terrorism & Political Violence Books

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1. Al Qaeda

   Edited by Paul Cruickshank

   This new Major Work assembles a four-volume collection of the best research and writing on Al Qaeda terrorism so that students, counter-terrorism specialists, and academics have a 'go-to' resource on the subject matter. The articles are mainly drawn from peer review journals such as Studies in...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-58174-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Islamist Radicalisation in North Africa: Politics and Process

   Edited by George Joffe

   In the current climate of political extremism and violence, much attention has been directed towards "radicalisation" as the reasons behind such courses of action, along with a conviction that those who are radicalised represent an irrational deviation from the conventionally accepted...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-58806-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Political Assassinations and International Politics

   By Suchitra Dutta

   This book examines the phenomenon of political assassinations in the contemporary world. It makes a clear distinction between a murder, an assassination and a political assassination although there may indeed be some overlap between the terms. Suchitra Dutta analyzes the various justifications...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-41800-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency

   Edited by Paul Rich, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

   This new handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of academic analysis and debate on insurgency and counter-insurgency, as well as an-up-to date survey of contemporary insurgent movements and counter-insurgencies. There has been an upsurge of...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-56733-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Terrorism and Human Rights

   Edited by Alex Schmid

   As a special type of political violence, terrorism comes in several guises. It manifests itself as disproportionate or draconian state repression in internal conflicts, and also as a particular type of violation of the laws of war in international conflicts. Most often, however, it is associated...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-57472-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. 'Progress' in Zimbabwe?: The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

   Edited by David Moore, Norma Kriger

   Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation....

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-59465-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and Social Roots of Extremism

   By Eamon Murphy

   This book aims to explain the rise of Pakistan as a centre of Islamic extremism by going back to the roots of the state and the nature of Islam in Pakistan. The broad aim therefore is to examine the social, and political and economic factors that have...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-56526-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence: The 'War on Terror' as Terror

   Edited by Scott Poynting, David Whyte

   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...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60720-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Conducting Terrorism Field Research: A Guide

   Edited by Adam Dolnik

   This book offers a detailed and practically oriented guide to the challenges of conducting terrorist fieldwork. The past decade has seen an explosion of research into terrorism. However, field research on terrorism has traditionally been surrounded by many myths, and has been called anything from...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60931-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Liberal Terror: Global Security, Divine Power and Emergency Rule

    By Brad Evans

    This book offers a genealogical investigation into the phenomenon of terror in the 21st century. Terror has become the defining political emblem of our globally inter-connected age, resulting in an unprecedented global security effort which has given renewed purpose to the Liberal...

    July 2011 | 978-0-415-58882-9 | Hardback (Routledge)