542 Pages
by
Routledge
542 Pages
by
Routledge
542 Pages
by
Routledge
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Terrorists engage in propaganda and rhetoric, even though they prefer the power of deed over word. They use a wide variety of mechanisms of moral disengagement to convince themselves of the rightness of their actions, a necessary prerequisite for taking up arms. The articles collected together in this excellent volume focus on the rhetoric and propaganda used by insurgent terrorists to justify... Read more
Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I In the beginning: Understanding the next act, Nathan Leites. Part II In the Name of the Cause: Terrorism and propaganda: problem and response, Maurice Tugwell; When terrorists do the talking: reflections on terrorist literature, Bonnie Cordes (1987); Mechanisms of moral disengagement, Albert Bandura; How violence is justified: Sinn Fein's An Phoblacht, Robert G. Picard; The rhetoric of terrorism, Richard W. Leeman. Part III In the Mirror of the Past: Cultural narrative and the motivation of the terrorist, Kachig Tololyan; Striking with hunger: cultural meanings of political violence in Northern Ireland, Begona Aretxaga; Martyrdom and witnessing: violence, terror and recollection in Cyprus, Paul Sant Cassia; Narratives of violence, Gerald Cromer. Part IV In the Name of God: The logic of religious violence, Mark Jurgensmeyer; Messianic sanctions for terror, David C. Rapoport; Violence and catastrophe in the theology of Rabbi Meir Kahane: the ideologization of mimetic desire, Ehud Sprinzak; Absolute rescue: absolutism, defensive action and the resort to force, Jeffrey Kaplan; A manual of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, Raphael Israeli; Killing in the name of Islam: al Qaeda's justification for September 11, Quintan Wiktorowicz and John Kaltner. Part V In Comparison: The role of ideology in terrorists' target selection, C.J.M. Drake; Theories of justification and political violence: examples from 4 groups, Garrett O'Boyle; Borroka - the legitimation of street violence in the political discourse of radical Basque nationalists, Hanspeter van den Broek (2004); Index.
Biography
Gerald Cromer
