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Terrorism : a critical introduction / Richard Jackson... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.Description: xv, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780230221178 (hardback)
  • 9780230221185 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.325 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6431 .T4593 2011
Other classification:
  • POL037000 | POL033000 | POL034000
  • MD 8920
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: THE STUDY OF POLITICAL TERRORISM -- The Orthodox Study of Terrorism -- Critical Approaches to Terrorism Studies -- The Cultural Construction of Terrorism -- Bringing Gender into the Study of Terrorism -- PART II: KEY ISSUES -- Conceptualizing Terrorism -- Reconsidering the Terrorism Threat -- Types of Terrorism -- Understanding State Terrorism -- The Causes of Non-State Terrorism -- Responding to Non-State Terrorism -- Assessing the War on Terror.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: THE STUDY OF POLITICAL TERRORISM -- The Orthodox Study of Terrorism -- Critical Approaches to Terrorism Studies -- The Cultural Construction of Terrorism -- Bringing Gender into the Study of Terrorism -- PART II: KEY ISSUES -- Conceptualizing Terrorism -- Reconsidering the Terrorism Threat -- Types of Terrorism -- Understanding State Terrorism -- The Causes of Non-State Terrorism -- Responding to Non-State Terrorism -- Assessing the War on Terror.

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