Terrorism, Armed Struggle

How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, ...

Why are we still at 'war' with terror 16 years after 9/11? This book will discuss what we have collectively done well, what we have done poorly, w...

Why are we still at 'war' with terror 16 years after 9/11? This book will discuss what we have collectively done well, what we have done poorly, w...

During the Cold War, U.S. intelligence was concerned primarily with states; non-state actors like terrorists were secondary. Now the priorities are...

Reimagining the National Security State provides the first comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took on civil liberties, h...

Conflict economics contributes to an understanding of violent conflict and peace in two important ways. First, it applies economic concepts and mod...

In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progress and dread, charact...

Most observers of Iran viewed the Green Uprisings of 2009 as a 'failed revolution', with many Iranians and those in neighbouring Arab countries agr...

The threat of personal harm and destruction from terrorist attacks is nowhere near as great as in Arab nations. However, are counter-terrorism laws...

Some of the world's most lethal terrorist organizations have become media-centric enterprises, while also hijacking a major world religion, holding...

Some of the world's most lethal terrorist organizations have become media-centric enterprises, while also hijacking a major world religion, holding...

The United States is not a police state, but Congress is subject to special interests lobbying in pursuit of abusive commercial practices that leav...

Baker provides a unique insider perspective on factors affecting British Muslim converts and their susceptibility to violent radicalisation, includ...

Disasters are part of the modern condition, a source of physical anxiety and existential angst, and they are increasing in frequency, cost and seve...

Spanning the period from the cold war to the 'war on terror', examines the political economy dynamics of security and insecurity on the continent, ...

An incisive, authoritative account of the Wests failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul   In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanis...

Higher education institutions have increasingly been identified as potentially radicalising locations. The 2015 Counter-Terrorism and Security Act ...

During the first two years of Ronald Reagans second term the United States developed an offensive strategy for dealing with conflict in the develop...

What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and victimhood culture have in common? Betraying Dignity argues that in the second decade of the twenty-f...

Peace and Conflict is a biennial publication that provides key data and follows trends in national and international conflicts ranging from isolate...

Policy decisions in education have changed drastically as a result of the recent threats to our international and national security. In this timely...

A primer to terrorist financing and resourcing, this book examines what terrorist organizations must acquire in order to survive and operate, and d...

The ability of law enforcement agencies to manage and act upon intelligence is the key to countering terrorism. Likewise, a critical foundation of ...

Fourteen specialists of Central and Eastern European politics explore memory policies and politics by examining how and why contested memories are ...