Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Terrorism

This book offers a wide-ranging and critical examination of recent counter-radicalisation policies, using case studies from several countries.

Counter-radicalisation policies, such as the UK Prevent strategy, have been highly controversial and increasingly criticised since their introduction. In this edited volume, voices from disciplines including sociology, political science, criminology and International Relations are brought together to address issues across the global roll-out of counter-radicalisation agendas. In so doing, the book critically interrogates: (i) the connections...

The War on Terror is more than a political movement to identify and prosecute terrorists ... it has become a cornerstone of economic and military importance. This campaign has shaped policy in the Middle East, prompted uprisings of Islamic fundamentalists against the West, and redefined the ideology of warfare. This single-volume encyclopedia provides readers with more than 200 engaging entries on the myriad events, key individuals, and organizations that have played a major role in the War on Terror.

The A-Z entries define the policies and doctrines; describe the armies, battlefields,...

There used to be a time when human life held value. When entire nations would go to war over a single injury or death. Then politics became involved and slowly, over time, people took on the value of the collective. No longer were humans viewed as individual persons but, rather, as pawns "too stupid" to think for him or herself. Life became a commodity and has been shown throughout the world in places such as Bosnia, Darfur, and Rwanda, an extremely cheap commodity at that. Over "one million" Tutsis and Hutus died in genocides during 1972 and 1994, but "who" cared about blacks killing...

This book explores the evolutionary context of terrorism and political violence.

While evolutionary thinking has come to permeate both biological and social-science theorising, it has not yet been applied systematically to the areas of terrorism and political violence. This volume seeks to do this for the first time. It presents a collection of essays on evolutionary psychology and terrorism, which encourage the reader to approach terrorism from a non-traditional perspective, by developing new approaches to understanding it and those who commit such acts of violence. The book...