1st Edition

Terrorism’s Persistence in South Asia and Pakistan

By Muhammad Feyyaz Copyright 2026
206 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the paradoxical endurance of terrorism, which continues to exist despite often failing to achieve its central goals. Multifaceted and wide-ranging in scope, the analysis comprehensively surveys a range of global contexts from the last two centuries, where long-term terrorism has prevailed, and systematically identifies various terrorism-sustaining determinants. Using South... Read more

1.Placing Terrorism Persistence in Context: An Introduction.  Part I-Global and South Asian Dynamics.  2.Chapter 1: Terrorism’s Paradoxical Persistence: Global contexts, Explanations and voids.  3.Chapter 2 – Terrorism in South Asia and Pakistan: Conflict History and Terrorism Literature.  Part II- Terrorism Longevity: Empirical and Theoretical Causes.  4.Chapter 3: The Ideational Factors and Discourses of Persistence –Part I.  5.Chapter 3: The Ideational Factors and Discourses of Persistence –Part II.  6.Chapter 4: The Structural-material Factors of Persistence.  7.Chapter 5: Interpreting and Theorising Persistent Terrorism: Pakistan and Beyond.  Part III-The Tenability of Persistence-Efficacy Paradox.  8.Chapter 6: Empirical Reality versus Tenability of Central Paradox, Extant Literatures, and Theories.  9.Conclusions and Reflections. 

Biography

Muhammad Feyyaz is an associate professor at Minhaj University, Lahore. He received his PhD from Queen’s University Belfast, UK.