Terrorism, Armed Struggle

The Paths to Terror offers a new and refreshing perspective on sociopolitical violence: one that highlights the human experience of domination, res...

With intensified threats to global security from international terrorism worldwide, education systems themselves face these same unprecedented secu...

Northern Lebanon is a land in turmoil. Long under the sway of the Assad regime in Syria, it is now a magnet for Sunni Muslim jihadists inspired by ...

In recent years, an increasing amount of research has argued that the successful transformation of rebel organization into parties is critical to s...

What is it that leaves us shell shocked in the face of the massacres carried out in New York on 9/11 or in Paris on 13 November 2015? How are we to...

This book examines the response to right-wing extremism in the US from both the government and non-governmental organisations. It provides a detail...

There is almost unanimous agreement that civilians should be protected from the direct effects of violent conflict, and that the distinction betwee...

Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to...

The terrorist threat remains a disturbing issue for the early 1990s. This book explores whether terrorism can ever be morally justifiable and if so...

The political philosophy of Leo Strauss has been the subject of significant scholarly and media attention in recent years, particularly in the cont...

Contributions to this volume consider the importance of mediation in violent conflict. Practical and applied, this publication will be of interest ...

This book examines the role of terrorist innovation and learning in theory and practice, and in the context of three specific EU case-studies.It is...

On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How ar...

This book presents a selection of edited essays written by leading international scholars engaging with practicing intelligence, military, and poli...

Ever since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas fifty years ago, various theories have swirled around what was a key event in Americ...

In November 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. His death remains a defining moment for millions of people but few un...

Reconciliation after Terrorism brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies, in order to exa...

This book opens up the discussion of the interrelation between terrorism studies, and peace and conflict studies. Even though it is often accepted ...

This book examines the role of terrorist innovation and learning in theory and practice, and in the context of three specific EU case-studies.It is...

This book examines Pakistan's strategies in the war against Islamist armed groups that began late 2001, following the 9/11 attacks. The significanc...

Why do responses to terrorist attacks often perpetuate cycles of deadly violence?Can an understanding of the psychology of these cycles help us to ...

The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West. But, like other religi...

On 22 July 2011 a young man named Anders Behring Breivik carried out one of the most vicious terrorist acts in post-war Europe. In a carefully orch...

This edited volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to violence and war and its implications for media, culture and society. Over...

This book examines the circulation and effects of radical discourse by analysing the role of mass media coverage in promoting or hindering radicali...

Analyzing the role of rhetoric and ideology in the western ‘war on terror’ and Islamic ‘jihad’ in the aftermath of 9/11, Gabriele Marranci shows th...

This book seeks to explore the new frontiers in counter-terrorism research, analyses and practice, focusing on the imperative to rehabilitate terro...

Analyzing the role of rhetoric and ideology in the western ‘war on terror’ and Islamic ‘jihad’ in the aftermath of 9/11, Gabriele Marranci shows th...

This book analyses the root causes of suicide terrorism at both the elite and rank-and- file levels of the Hamas and also explains why this tactic ...

This book investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of terrorist and stati...

This is the first comprehensive study of the core philosophical questions posed by terrorism such as: How should we define it? Is it morally distin...

This book uses the theory of social movements and first-hand interviews to create a new analysis of religiously motivated political violence in the...

This book examines the response to right-wing extremism in the US from both the government and non-governmental organisations. It provides a detail...

The War of All the People elucidates the ideological and political war against the United States, capitalism, and the widely accepted tenets of mod...

This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events – such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics – which we cannot...

In recent years, senior policy officials have highlighted increased signs of convergence between terrorism and unconventional (CBRN) weapons. Terro...

This edited volume brings together both western and non-western approaches to counter-terrorism in the post-9/11 era. This multi-cultural study of ...

The political philosophy of Leo Strauss has been the subject of significant scholarly and media attention in recent years, particularly in the cont...

This volume aims to ‘bring the state back into terrorism studies’ and fill the notable gap that currently exists in our understanding of the ways i...

This new book provides a framework for understanding the international relations of armed groups, including terrorist organizations, insurgencies a...

This book explores the complicity of democratic states from the global North in state terrorism in the global South. It evaluates the relationship ...

This book examines terrorism's impact on the international aviation security regime, with a focus on the role of the United States. Tracing the his...

Only once in history has a British Prime Minister been assassinated. At 5.00 p.m. on Monday, 11 May 1812, John Bellingham made his way to the House...