Terrorism Revisited

Author : Paulo Casaca
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319556908
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorism Revisited written by Paulo Casaca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a conceptual approach to understanding the face of contemporary terrorism as manifested in the recent attacks in Mumbai and Paris. By analyzing the historical evolution of terrorism and by offering case studies on different forms of terrorism in South Asia and elsewhere, the authors shed new light on the political strategies behind terrorist attacks, as well as on the motivations of terrorists. The case studies explore the redefinition of terrorism by the Iranian Islamic revolution, the spread of terrorism in Sunni Islam, the national jihadism in Pakistan, anti-Semitism as a main factor behind fanatical terrorist ideologies, and the case of the Tamil Tigers. "Redefining terrorism is a dynamic story that provides readers with intrigue and clarity to the ever-evolving threats that we face as a nation and as a global community. The authors masterfully navigate through the intricate maze of global terrorism bringing an overwhelming dose of reality through his usage of real life, gripping experiences. Through this book military and intelligence analysts and policy makers alike will gain first-hand knowledge about not only what the world looks like today but a glimpse into the future."US Congressman Pete Sessions

Author : Rohan Gunaratna
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0854661409
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global War on Terrorism - Revisited written by Rohan Gunaratna and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through examining the development of new trends in terrorism, it is evident that the purpose of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) has yet to be achieved since the terror landscape is constantly changing due to new developments. The Israel and Hamas war that began in October 2023 has awakened many militant organizations and has amplified the efforts of active militants on the ground and online. Therefore, such attacks will motivate like-minded individuals and continue the legacy of militancy, making it a challenge to eradicate. Hence, it is evident that the GWOT is constantly being challenged by new circumstances in the global terror landscape. This book provides a comprehensive overview of counterterrorism efforts such as the GWOT.

Author : Erica Chenoweth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191047139
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism written by Erica Chenoweth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism systematically integrates the substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues in studying and teaching these vital phenomena. This Handbook goes further than most existing collections by giving structure and direction to the fast-growing but somewhat disjointed field of terrorism studies. The volume locates terrorism within the wider spectrum of political violence instead of engaging in the widespread tendency towards treating terrorism as an exceptional act. Moreover, the volume makes a case for studying terrorism within its socio-historical context. Finally, the volume addresses the critique that the study of terrorism suffers from lack of theory by reviewing and extending the theoretical insights contributed by several fields - including political science, political economy, history, sociology, anthropology, criminology, law, geography, and psychology. In doing so, the volume showcases the analytical advancements and reflects on the challenges that remain since the emergence of the field in the early 1970s.

Author : Milan Obaidi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Terrorism Revisited written by Milan Obaidi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the media there are two common explanations for terrorist attacks: Those who commit these acts are either described as mentally ill or as religious fundamentalists. For example, when Anders Breivik killed 77 teenagers he was declared insane suffering from paranoid and schizophrenia, whereas the perpetrators of 9/11 attacks were described as religious zealots. Unfortunately, the scientific literature also simplifies radicalization and terrorism in a similar fashion; the field is divided between person and situation explanations of terrorism and radicalization. However, to understand terrorism and radicalization adequately the dichotomy of person-situation needs to be readdressed. This dissertation begins to explore the premises that the potential for participating in asymmetrical collective violence must be understood as interplay between intra-individual, social psychological and external/societal factors. Broadly speaking, this dissertation aims to answer the following question: What are the social and psychological factors and processes that contribute to the motivations behind the radicalization of first, second and third generation of Muslim Europeans? This dissertation first addressees the dichotomy of person and situation and proposes an integrated model of terrorism and radicalization. Second, integrating perspectives from various line of research I demonstrate how factors from the different domains of research relate, and more importantly, complement each other in shaping circumstances, which will make radicalization more or less likely to occur. Finally, I explore the influence of person factors such as personality traits. While previous research on extremism and violent has overlooked the potential role of non-pathological personality differences, it is proposed here that non-pathological personality characteristics would predict both violent and non-violent behavioral intentions and actual behavior among Muslims in defense of their group. Therefore, this work aims to extend knowledge on terrorism beyond existing literature, which tends to focus exclusively on either situational factors or psychopathology.

Author : Jim Marrs
Publisher : Red Wheel Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1934708747
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Terror Conspiracy Revisited written by Jim Marrs and published by Red Wheel Weiser. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling journalist and leading conspiracy writer presents his latest findings on the truth behind the 9/11 terror attacks. The terror attacks of September 11, 2001 ushered the United States into an era of war across the Middle East and government surveillance at home. In The Terror Conspiracy Revisited, Jim Marrs updates his authoritative dissection of the official story of 9/11. This revised edition is packed with explosive material including: The revelations of former New Jersey attorney General John Farmer, who served as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission: "At some level of the government, at some point in time. . .there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened." Commission cochairman Thomas Kean's suspicion of deceit: "We to this day don't know why NORAD told us what they told us. It was just so far from the truth." The conclusion of European scientists that there was nanothermite in the World Trade Center debris, a high explosive generally available only through the US military. The investigation by Pilots For 9/11 Truth and their conclusion that hijackers could not have accessed the cockpit of Flight 77. One thing we know to be true is that the full truth about the September 11th attacks has not yet been presented to the American public. Jim Marrs thoroughly dismantles the credibility of the US government's narrative and leaves the reader with some unsavory but indisputable conclusionsesented to the American public. Jim Marrs thoroughly dismantles the credibility of the US government's narrative and leaves the reader with some unsavory but indisputable conclusions.

Author : E. Vermetten
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1643680579
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Risk Management of Terrorism Induced Stress written by E. Vermetten and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorism is a psychological weapon; by definition its purpose is to spread terror or fear in order to achieve goals unattainable by more conventional means. It is a weapon of asymmetric warfare whose success or failure is entirely dependent on the psychological reactions of its targets. Despite this, interest in the effects of terrorism from a behavioral and psychological perspective is relatively recent, dating initially from the 1990s and boosted by the events of September 11th 2001. This book presents papers delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) Risk Management of Terrorism Induced Stress – Guidelines for the Golden Hours (Who, What and When) held in Odesa, Ukraine, from 16-19 September 2018. The aim of the workshop was to bring together experts from the military, science and policy to revisit old guidelines and inform new research into novel approaches. The focus of the workshop was the so-called ‘Golden Hours’; the period immediately following a traumatic event in which therapeutic interventions are thought to have the most impact. What needs to be done in the immediate aftermath of terror, who is vulnerable and who is resilient, and when is intervention appropriate? The book is divided into sections covering the areas of biology, interventions, special populations, additional perspectives, policy, déjà-vu and future directions. Providing a comprehensive overview of the management of terror-related stress, the book will be of interest to planners and policy makers, as well as mental health professionals working with PTSD and other consequences of terror events.

Author : Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154717X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genealogies of Terrorism written by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is terrorism? What ought we to do about it? And why is it wrong? We think we have clear answers to these questions. But acts of violence, like U.S. drone strikes that indiscriminately kill civilians, and mass shootings that become terrorist attacks when suspects are identified as Muslim, suggest that definitions of terrorism are always contested. In Genealogies of Terrorism, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful. The result is a powerful critique of the power relations that shape how we understand and theorize political violence. Tracing discourses and practices of terrorism from the French Revolution to late imperial Russia, colonized Algeria, and the post-9/11 United States, Erlenbusch-Anderson examines what we do when we name something terrorism. She offers an important corrective to attempts to develop universal definitions that assure semantic consistency and provide normative certainty, showing that terrorism means many different things and serves a wide range of political purposes. In the tradition of Michel Foucault’s genealogies, Erlenbusch-Anderson excavates the history of conceptual and practical uses of terrorism and maps the historically contingent political and material conditions that shape their emergence. She analyzes the power relations that make different modes of understanding terrorism possible and reveals their complicity in justifying the exercise of sovereign power in the name of defending the nation, class, or humanity against the terrorist enemy. Offering an engaged critique of terrorism and the mechanisms of social and political exclusion that it enables, Genealogies of Terrorism is an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous critical history with important political implications.

Author : Oliver O'Donovan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521538992
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Just War Revisited written by Oliver O'Donovan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading political theologian Oliver O'Donovan takes a fresh look at some traditional moral arguments about war. Christians differ widely on this issue. The book re-examines questions of contemporary urgency, including the use of biological and nuclear weapons, military intervention, economic sanctions, and the role of the UN. It opens with a challenging dedication to the new Archbishop of Canterbury and proceeds to shed light on vital topics with which that Archbishop and others will be very directly engaged. It should be read by anyone concerned with the ethics of warfare.

Author : Eric Hoffer
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780809436026
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The True Believer written by Eric Hoffer and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004430121
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rwanda Revisited written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by people selected for their personalized knowledge of the Rwandan genocide, Rwanda Revisited: Genocide, Civil War, and the Transformation of International Law provides a unique level of insight, detail and first-hand knowledge about the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath.