Military, Strategic & Security Studies: Terrorism & Political Violence

Edited by Naim Kapucu, Arjen Boin

A wide range of natural hazards pose major risks to the lives and livelihoods of large populations around the world. Man-made disasters caused by technological failures, industrial accidents, spillages, explosions, and fires, compound this threat. Since 9/11, security threats based on violence (…

Paperback – 2017-06-07
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Edited by Samuel Totten, Henry Theriault, Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

At the heart of the field of Genocide Studies lies an active core of vigorous debate that has led to both heated disagreements and productive disputes. This new volume in the Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review series focuses on these, as well as other significant issues. Chapters in this…

Hardback – 2017-06-06
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By Maryam Khalid

This book offers an accessible and timely analysis of the ‘War on Terror’, based on an innovative approach to a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses ‘gendered orientalism’ as a lens through which to read the relationship between the George W. Bush administration, gendered and…

Hardback – 2017-06-02
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Postcolonial Politics

Edited by Awet T. Weldemichael, Patricia Schneider, Andrew C. Winner

Unregulated or lesser regulated maritime spaces are ideal theatres of operation and mediums of transportation for terrorists, insurgents and pirates. For more than a decade, the Indian Ocean waters adjoining Somalia have been a particular locus of such activities, with pirates hijacking vessels,…

Paperback – 2017-05-31
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Edited by Genevieve Lennon, Clive Walker

In the years since 9/11, counter-terrorism law and policy has proliferated across the world. This handbook comprehensively surveys how the law has been deployed in all aspects of counter-terrorism. It provides an authoritative and critical analysis of counter-terrorism laws in domestic…

Paperback – 2017-05-25
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Edited by David M. Anderson, Øystein H. Rolandsen

Over the fifty years between 1940 and 1990, the countries of eastern Africa were embroiled in a range of debilitating and destructive conflicts, starting with the wars of independence, but then incorporating rebellion, secession and local insurrection as the Cold War replaced colonialism. The…

Paperback – 2017-05-24
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Edited by Fiona de Londras, Josephine Doody

Counter-terrorism law and policy has been prominent and widespread in the years following 9/11, touching on many areas of everyday life from policing and border control to financial transactions and internet governance. The European Union is a major actor in contemporary counter-terrorism,…

Paperback – 2017-05-24
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Routledge Research in Terrorism and the Law

Edited by Helen Fenwick

This book considers some of the most notable aspects of the legal response to the "war on terror" post- 9/11 and the use of technology to support them. It examines the shift from a criminal justice response to the creation of a parallel preventive system running in tandem with it. This system…

Paperback – 2017-05-24
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By Kamil Yılmaz

This book presents an in-depth case study of thirteen individuals who moved away from terrorist activity in Turkey. Setting their life stories in the context of political violence in support of Kurdish independence and a leftist revolution, and the response of the Turkish state, the book examines…

Paperback – 2017-05-10
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Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption

By A. R. Sriskanda Rajah

The island of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was one of the few Asian colonies in which the British Empire experimented liberal state-building in the nineteenth century, and where many British colonial officials predicted that the independent state would become a liberal democratic success story. Sri…

Hardback – 2017-05-05
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Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics

By Ammar Shamaileh

Why do some individuals choose to protest political grievances via non-violent means, while others take up arms? What role does whom we trust play in how we collectively act? This book explores these questions by delving into the relationship between interpersonal trust and the nature of the…

Hardback – 2017-05-02
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Conceptualising Comparative Politics

Edited by Katharina Manderscheid, Tim Schwanen, David Tyfield

Although Foucault’s work has been employed and embraced enthusiastically by some ‘mobilities’ scholars, discussion across these two traditions to date has mostly been partial and unsystematic. Yet Foucault’s work can make critical contributions, for example, to thinking about governing mobilities…

Paperback – 2017-04-16
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