Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism : Patterns and Predictions

ISBN-13: 9780714652610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 259 str.

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Opis

Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism: Patterns and Predictions is devoted to understanding how international terrorism is shaped, how it evolves over time and what we are to expect in the future. The book offers a fresh contribution to the terrorism literature by drawing upon research and methods outside the traditional terrorism research genre, and by taking both a theoretical approach and a practical predictive perspective that is surprisingly unusual in the field. While predicting terrorism is a highly speculative business, there are ways of identifying certain long-term causes, driving forces and their linkages with societal conditions. Terrorists are never aliens from a distant planet, but usually integral players in local and sometimes global politics. Hence, when the local, regional and international contexts change, so does terrorism. This book offers a thorough review of the literature on the causes of terrorism and combines this research with predictive and futuristic literature on globalisation, supported by a range of case studies. globalisation of the market economy, demographic factors, ideological shifts and technological changes. The result is a set of propositions about future patterns of terrorism, which are not simply best guesses, but are backed up by research.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Causes of Terrorism 3. International Relations in the Future 4. The Global Market Economy 5. The Demographic Factor 6. Ideological Shifts 7. Our Technological Future 8. Conclusion

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