Terrorism, Armed Struggle

The central focus of this book is a small but vitally important group of movements that constitute a distinct 'fifth wave' of modern terrorism, her...

Regulation and control of the financial industry has become the weapon of choice for governments struggling to control the rise in global crime and...

Establishes the airport as a crucial site in the rise of the surveillance stateFew sites are more symbolic of both the opportunities and vulnerabil...

The war on terror is a lost cause. As the war heads towards its second decade, American security policy is in disarray – the Iraq War is a disaster...

This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee (‘Church Committee’) into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, an...

Fighting Terrorism and Drugs is an examination of European states in their fight against terrorism and drugs, from the 1960s up to the present day....

As Pakistan teeters on the brink of the abyss, Zahid Hussain draws on his unparallelled access and sources amongst the intelligence services, the j...

This book is an analysis and critique of the concepts of ‘exception’ and ‘exceptionalism’ in the context of the politics of liberty and security in...

This volume examines the role of the military, the most influential actor in Pakistan, and challenges conventional wisdom on the causes of politica...

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for th...

In January-February 2005, the National Academies Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States and the Russian Academy ...

We live in an age of terrorism and like to think that the United Kingdom is a reasonably peaceful place, largely untroubled by the atrocity committ...

China’s war on terror is among its most prominent and least understood of campaigns. With links to the global jihad, an indigenous insurgency threa...

On 30 January 1972, the British Army deployed the 1st Parachute Regiment to conduct an arrest operation in Derry, during a Northern Ireland Civil R...

International terrorism and the ‘war’ against it have come to define the age in which we live. The threat of terrorist attacks and the measures tak...

Despite the saturation of global media coverage, Osama bin Laden's own writings have been curiously absent from analysis of the "war on terror." Ov...

The brutal assasination of Commissioner Frederick Mackeson on British India's North-West Frontier in 1853 was a bloody and public declaration of a ...

Terrorists perform terrible acts. They maim, mutilate and kill in pursuit of their goals. The horrifying events of 9/11 and the regular suicide bom...

This volume investigates the impact of a new brand of transnational terrorism and political violence produced by radical Islamist groups from the M...

Drawing upon new research and methods outside the traditional focus, and by taking both a theoretical approach and a new practical predictive persp...

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for th...

The gripping true story of the Israeli-led hunt for the men responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972,...

Since the emergence of the terrorist bombing campaign in Northern Ireland in 1969, the dreadful atrocities committed by both nationalist and loyali...

Terrorists perform terrible acts. They maim, mutilate and kill in pursuit of their goals. The horrifying events of 9/11 and the regular suicide bom...