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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)
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How Terrorism Ends
By Leonard Weinberg
This book considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end. Virtually all the groups that employed terrorist violence during the 1960s and 1970s have passed from the scene in one way or another. Likewise most of the individuals who embarked on ‘careers’ in...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-78118-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Debating Terrorism: Interdisciplinary Analyses of Key Issues
Edited by Richard Jackson, Samuel J Sinclair
Debating 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 in quantity and quality, with a growing number of...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-59116-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission
By Robert Jenkins
The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) was established in December 2005. Its emergence was the culmination of a long and contentious process, stretching back to at least the early 1990s. Robert Jenkins traces the origins and evolution of peacebuilding as a concept, the creation and...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-77644-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Democracy and Violence: Global Debates and Local Challenges
Edited by John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar
Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-60957-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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State Terrorism and Human Rights: International Responses since the Cold War
By Paul Wilkinson
This book aims to improve our understanding of the broad trends in the use of political violence by examining the use of state terror in world politics. There are numerous military regimes and other forms of dictatorship where the use of terror techniques for internal control is routine. While...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-47424-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Political Violence in Post-Conflict Societies: Remarginalisation, remobilisers and relationships
By R. Anders Nilsson
This book examines why some ex-combatants re-engage in political violence after civil wars have ended, while others do not. Though former fighters have been identified as a major source of insecurity in post-civil war societies due to their military know-how, there have been few efforts to...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-57922-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Corporate Security, Terrorism and Risk
By Karen Lund Petersen
It is generally agreed that terrorism has broadened the field of security by blurring the distinctions between internal and external, military and police, crime and war, public and private. What before was considered ‘normal’ risk and safety issues are now seen as a concern of national security....
April 2011 | 978-0-415-57999-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Irish Republican Terrorism and Politics: A Comparative Study of the Official and the Provisional IRA
By Kacper Rekawek
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 these....
April 2011 | 978-0-415-58801-0 | Hardback (Routledge)