The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research

ISBN-13: 9780415411578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 718 str.

Schmid

Opis

This volume is a monumental collection of definitions, conceptual frameworks, paradigmatic formulations, and bibliographic sources, which is now being revised and updated as a resource for the expanding community of researchers on the subject of terrorism.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Alex P. Schmid  2. The Problem of Defining Terrorism Alex P. Schmid  3. Typologies of Terrorism and Political Violence Sarah Marsden and Alex P. Schmid  4. Theories of Terrorism Bradley McAllister and Alex P. Schmid  5. Databases on Terrorism Neil G. Bowie and Alex P. Schmid  6. World Directory of Extremist, Terrorist and Other Organizations associated with Guerrilla Warfare, Political Violence, Protest and Organized and Cyber-Crime Albert J. Jongman  7. Library and Internet Resources for Research on Terrorism Eric Price  8. The Literature on Terrorism Alex P. Schmid  9. Bibliography of Terrorism Gillian Duncan and Alex P. Schmid  10. Glossary and Acronyms on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Alex P. Schmid

O autorze

Alex P. Schmid is a Vsiting Research Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is also Editor of TRI's online journal Perspectives on Terrorism. He was Director of the Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI), an international network of scholars who seek to enhance human security through collaborative research, Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St Andrews, UK, where he held a chair in International Relations and, until 2005, Officer-in-Charge of the Terrorism Prevention Branch at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna. Currently he is Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS).