1st Edition

Bringing Normativity into Critical Terrorism Studies

Edited By Alice Martini Copyright 2021
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores and inquiries into the interrelation between normativity and Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) from a wide range of critical views. The volume draws together authors with very different positions and understandings of normativity and policy-implementations in relation to countering terrorism, to offer the reader a wide range of perspectives and views on this topic. As such,... Read more

Introduction: Rethinking terrorism and countering terrorism from a critical perspective. CTS and normativity.

Alice Martini

1. The human faces of terror: reflections in a cracked looking-glass

Ken Booth

2. Make Hegel great again: On Hegel’s epistemological contribution to critical terrorism studies

Athanasios Gkoutzioulis

3. The end of emancipation? CTS and normativity

Sondre Lindahl

4. Re-visioning the "Eye in the Sky": targeted drone strikes and an ethics of the encounter

Matthew Robson

5. CTS and normativity: the essentials of preemptive counter-terrorism interventions

Tom Pettinger

6. Being resilient to radicalisation in PVE policy: a critical examination

William Stephens and Stijn Sieckelinck

7. Experiencing the war "of" terror: A call to the critical terrorism studies community

Asim Qureshi

Biography

Alice Martini is Associate Professor of International Security at Comillas Pontifical University, Spain. She co-convenes the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group. Her research interests involve the international legitimisation of countering terrorism and extremism policies and global prevention practices. She is the author of The UN and counter-terrorism (Routledge, 2021).