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Political Violence


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This book series contains sober, thoughtful and authoritative academic accounts of terrorism and political violence. Its aim is to produce a useful taxonomy of terror and violence through comparative and historical analysis in both national and international spheres. Each book discusses origins, organisational dynamics and outcomes of particular forms and expressions of political violence.

Founding Editor: David Rapoport

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Mobilization for Violent Politicized Islam Motivations of Former Participants in al-Shabaab

Mobilization for Violent Politicized Islam: Motivations of Former Participants in al-Shabaab

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Hawa Noor
August 09, 2024

This book focuses on the involvement of some Kenyans in al-Shabaab, an affiliate of Al-Qaeda based in Somalia, despite their country’s relative stability compared to Somalia. The book discusses the origin of the Kenyan state and how colonization created social stratification that benefited elites ...

Violence, Politics and Religion A General Theory of Violent Radicalization

Violence, Politics and Religion: A General Theory of Violent Radicalization

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Sergio García-Magariño
April 30, 2024

This book offers a general theory of violent radicalization and uses case studies from a variety of different countries and groups to illustrate this. The first and fundamental objective of the book is to provide an explanatory framework to understand phenomena related to violent radicalization, ...

Salafi-Jihadism and Digital Media The Nordic and International Context

Salafi-Jihadism and Digital Media: The Nordic and International Context

1st Edition

Edited By Magnus Ranstorp, Linda Ahlerup, Filip Ahlin
January 29, 2024

This book explores the online strategies and presence of Salafi-Jihadi actors in the Nordic as well as the international context. Global Salafi-jihadism has been at the epicentre of international focus during the past decade. This book explores how the Swedish and other Nordic Salafi-jihadist ...

How Terrorists Learn Organizational Learning and Beyond

How Terrorists Learn: Organizational Learning and Beyond

1st Edition

Edited By Carolin Görzig, Michael Fürstenberg, Florian Köhler, Imad Alsoos
September 01, 2023

This volume helps us understand the transformations of terrorist organisations, and the conflicts they are involved in, by broadening the perspective on what is considered terrorist learning. Using a variety of methodological approaches and empirical data, the volume offers a look at the ...

The Evolution of Counter-Terrorism Since 9/11 Understanding the Paradigm Shift in Liberal Democracies

The Evolution of Counter-Terrorism Since 9/11: Understanding the Paradigm Shift in Liberal Democracies

1st Edition

By Thomas Renard
May 31, 2023

This book examines the evolution of counter-terrorism (CT) policies in liberal democracies since 2001, with a specific focus on the case of Belgium. What is counter-terrorism (CT)? While the answer to this question may seem self-evident, it has become quite complicated to define the contours of a ...

Territoriality of Radical Islamist Groups Security, Economy, and Identity

Territoriality of Radical Islamist Groups: Security, Economy, and Identity

1st Edition

By Bohumil Doboš, Martin Riegl, Jakub Landovský
January 09, 2023

This book examines the issue of territorial control by violent jihadist groups, using a comparative perspective. The book argues that in many parts of the world the connection between a state and the control over territory is not as close as presented by conventional political maps, and therefore ...

Foreign Fighters and Radical Influencers Radical Milieus in the Postwar Balkans

Foreign Fighters and Radical Influencers: Radical Milieus in the Postwar Balkans

1st Edition

By Asya Metodieva
December 30, 2022

This book looks at Salafi influencers and foreign fighters in the Balkans to examine how the origins and dynamics of radical milieus are related to the legacy of the Bosnian War and the Kosovo War. The work seeks to understand if and in what ways these wars influenced the consolidation of radical ...

Islamic State in Australia

Islamic State in Australia

1st Edition

By Rodger Shanahan
December 30, 2022

This book fills a gap in our knowledge about the activities of Western supporters and members of Islamic State by examining the experience of their Australian cohort. More than 200 Australian men, women and children travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight with Islamist groups and to help establish an...

Terrorist Recruitment, Propaganda and Branding Selling Terror Online

Terrorist Recruitment, Propaganda and Branding: Selling Terror Online

1st Edition

By Anna Kruglova
August 05, 2022

This book analyses the marketing techniques that terrorist organisations employ to encourage people to adopt their ideology and become devoted supporters. The book’s central thesis is that due to the development of digital technologies and social media, terrorist groups are employing innovative ...

Terrorism, Democracy, and Human Security A Communication Model

Terrorism, Democracy, and Human Security: A Communication Model

1st Edition

By Ronald Crelinsten
March 16, 2021

This book examines the relationship between terrorism and counterterrorism and how it operates within the broader context of communication, control, power, and democratic governance at the national, international, and transnational level. A culmination of decades of research on the challenges that ...

Prosecuting Political Violence Collaborative Research and Method

Prosecuting Political Violence: Collaborative Research and Method

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Loadenthal
February 25, 2021

This volume unpacks the multidimensional realities of political violence, and how these crimes are dealt with throughout the US judicial system, using a mixed methods approach. The work seeks to challenge the often-noted problems with mainstream terrorism research, namely an overreliance on ...

Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Designing and Evaluating Evidence-Based Programs

Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: Designing and Evaluating Evidence-Based Programs

1st Edition

By Michael J. Williams
October 30, 2020

This textbook serves as a guide to design and evaluate evidence-based programs intended to prevent or counter violent extremism (P/CVE). Violent extremism and related hate crimes are problems which confront societies in virtually every region of the world; this text examines how we can prevent or ...

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