Terrorism, Armed Struggle

'The pre-eminent historian of the secret world . . . His books have set the gold standard for accurate historical reporting, but read like heart-po...

The runaway #1 New York Times bestseller'Timely and fascinating... There are many astonishing vignettes... an important book' Max Hastings, Sunday ...

The powerful story of how the War on Terror created the conditions for the emergence of a novel theory of jihad On March 7th, 2007, three Muslim un...

The worldwide resurgence of authoritarianism has sparked renewed interest in the Frankfurt School theory of the authoritarian personality, not as a...

'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away' Rory Carroll, bestselling author of Killing That...

This book draws on empirical research from North America, Europe and Australia to present a nuanced picture of the far right and analyses micro and...

This book investigates the ways in which the lethality of terrorist violence depends on how rebel organizations finance their rebellion.The leaders...

This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a...

This book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected people congregated temporarily often by chance, unlike cent...

The war against ISIS is often explained through the groups own rise to power. The American side of the story has not yet been told. This book recor...

This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa Indigenous people o...

This volume helps us understand the transformations of terrorist organisations, and the conflicts they are involved in, by broadening the perspecti...

Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror offers an in-depth analysis of US/UK military strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq from 200...

Despite numerous warnings from intelligence services, ISIS' rise to power has left countries around the world floundering for solutions. Today, we ...

Starting in 2001, much of the world media used the image of Osama bin Laden as a shorthand for terrorism. Bin Laden himself considered media manipu...

How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age of the 'war on terror'? The widely felt sense of in...

What are hybrid media events? Who creates them and what kind of purpose do they serve in contemporary societies? This book addresses these question...

A major international security concern that surfaced in the post-World War II period was the emergence and evolution of international terrorism. Th...

Who is the 'real' IRA? The Real IRA, the Continuity IRA, the Irish National Liberation Army, the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA have all assu...

Italian political terrorism of the 1970s has produced in its aftermath a rich body of memorial writing, created not only by victims or perpetrators...

Dark Ideas is the first book of its kind to show how ideas have transformed violent extremism over the past six decades. Certain violent jihadi and...

This book contextualizes the terror histories of a wide range of representative post-9/11 terror literatures in English from the USA, India, Pakist...

This book sheds light on the complex and controversial realm of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and their impact on international s...

Dr. Larivé questions whether there is such a thing as a European defense and security policy. This book analyzes the integration process by clearl...

Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition of Understanding Global Security considers the variety of ways in which peoples lives are threatened ...

This title was first published in 2002.This original text studies the UN system for the maintenance of international peace and security in the face...

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published Americas Pacific Century in Foreign Policy magazine in November 2011, the administration was clea...

This book places the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing within the broader context of American radicalism and isolationism during the Prog...

In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the events of 9/11, 7/7, the War on Terror and the Caliphate and atrocities of the so-called ...

The last two years have witnessed deterioration in the global security situation characterised by increasing tensions among major powers. The threa...

This title was first published in 2002. This detailed examination of the role of the Transatlantic Alliance in support of the America-led military ...

This volume of case studies examines the rise in violent extremism, terrorism and insurgency in South and South East Asia, and subsequent state res...

The dramatic terrorist attacks of 9/11 highlighted significant gaps in research on the topic as governments, community groups, social service agenc...

In this important new book, Douglas Little explores the political and cultural turmoil that led U.S. policy makers to shift their attention from co...

This book analyses the growth of sectarian-based terrorist violence in Pakistan, one of the Muslim majority states most affected by sectarian viole...