Gerges argues that Al-Qaeda has degenerated into a fractured, marginal body kept alive largely by the self-serving anti-terrorist bureaucracy it helped to spawn. He argues that the Western powers have become mired in a 'terrorism narrative', stemming from the mistaken belief tha…
Introduction -- Contextualizing terrorism, security, and development in South Asia / M. Raymond Izarali and Dalbir Ahlawat -- Country cases of terrorism, insurgencies, and development -- Non-state acts of terrorism and counterterrorism in Bangladesh: a critical review / Mokerrom…
This article proposes and argues that the birth of concepts "Russian World" and "Russian Islam" - both important to the post-Soviet Russian ideological landscape - occurred not only under the influence of similar ideas and values, but also through the authorship of the same inte…
"This book contends that the discourses of jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus, and their offshoots in other parts of the Russian Federation, are not just reflections of jihadi ideologies that came from abroad, rather that post-Soviet jihadism is a phenomenon best understood whe…
For love of the father: a psychoanalytic study of religious terrorism
by Stein, Ruth
fromMeridian
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God is the first thorough examination of Hezbollah's covert activities beyond Lebanon's borders, including its financial and logistical support networks and its criminal and terrorist operations worldwide. Hezbollah-Lebanon's…
"All steps forward in the improvement of the human psyche have been paid for by blood." Further to this statement from C. G. Jung, Wolfgang Giegerich's third volume of Collected English Papers shows that the soul is not merely the innocent recipient or victim of violence: it als…