Terrorism : a critical introduction / Richard Jackson... [et al.].
Publication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Red Globe Press, 2011.Description: xv, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780230221185 (pbk.)
- 9780230221178 (hardback)
- 363.325 22
- HV6431 .T4593 2011
- POL037000 | POL033000 | POL034000
- MD 8920
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: THE STUDY OF POLITICAL TERRORISM -- The Orthodox Study of Terrorism -- Critical Approaches to Terrorism Studies -- The Cultural Construction of Terrorism -- Bringing Gender into the Study of Terrorism -- PART II: KEY ISSUES -- Conceptualizing Terrorism -- Reconsidering the Terrorism Threat -- Types of Terrorism -- Understanding State Terrorism -- The Causes of Non-State Terrorism -- Responding to Non-State Terrorism -- Assessing the War on Terror.
"Terrorism has a long history but the devastating attacks of 9/11 transformed what had been seen as a relatively minor security issue into one of major global significance. This incisive new text provides an accessible and balanced assessment of political terror and its study and in the process rethinks many assumptions"--
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