Terrorism
Subtitle: a critical introduction
By: Richard Jackson... [et al.].
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780230221185
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism; Terrorism; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: PART I: THE STUDY OF POLITICAL TERRORISM; title: The Orthodox Study of Terrorism; title: Critical Approaches to Terrorism Studies; title: The Cultural Construction of Terrorism; title: Bringing Gender into the Study of Terrorism; title: PART II: KEY ISSUES; title: Conceptualizing Terrorism; title: Reconsidering the Terrorism Threat; title: Types of Terrorism; title: Understanding State Terrorism; title: The Causes of Non-State Terrorism; title: Responding to Non-State Terrorism; title: Assessing the War on Terror.