Understanding Terrorism and Political Violence: The Life Cycle of Birth, Growth, Transformation, and Demise

ISBN-13: 9780367277123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 298 str.

Dipak K. Gupta

Opis

This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and uses it to analyze the forces shaping the life cycle of violent political movements. This new edition has been revised and updated, with three new chapters being added.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Into the Mind of An Un-rational Being  3. Path Toward Pathology: An Individual’s Perspective  4. Terrorism and Political Violence: An Organizational Perspective  5. The Dynamics of Dissent  6. Faith, Nationalism, and Class Warfare: Birth of A Movement  7. Growth and Longevity  8. A Marriage Made in Hell? Terrorism and Organized Crime  9. Demise of dissent  10. Lands of the Fearful: Tribalism and Authoritarianism, The Fifth Wave  11. Terrorism’s Trap

O autorze

Dipak K. Gupta is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Political Science, San Diego State University, USA, and a Visiting Professor at the University of San Diego, USA.