1st Edition
Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism Terrorism’s Fifth Wave
By Jeffrey Kaplan
Copyright 2010
256 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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The central focus of this book is a small but vitally important group of movements that constitute a distinct 'fifth wave' of modern terrorism, here called the "New Tribalism".
Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism examines a collection of terrorist or insurgent movements whose similarity in tactics, strategic vision and desire to radically reshape their worlds to conform with a... Read more
Introduction Part 1: Theory 1. Terrorism and Religious Violence 2. Rapoport’s Four Waves Theory Revisited 3. The Fifth Wave Part 2: Praxis 4. The Lord’s Resistance Army 5. The Janjaweed in the Sudan 6. Conclusion—The Fifth Wave?
Biography
Jeffrey Kaplan is an Associate Professor of Religion and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion, Violence and Memory at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He is the author of eleven books on terrorism and political violence.
