Overview of the terrorism threat from Nixon to Trump -- Terrorism definitions, sanctions and legislations -- Background: Nixon to Clinton -- Changes in CT policy in Bush administration following 9/11 -- Obama administration: policy and program responses -- The policy challenges …
Tracks the defining episodes in the relationship between India and Pakistan since 1998.
When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the American military, exonerated high-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration, promoted Guantánamo as a model p…
by Puar, Jasbir K., Nyong'o, Tavia
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The sexuality of terrorism -- Abu Ghraib and U.S. sexual exceptionalism -- Intimate control, infinite detection: rereading the Lawrence case -- "The turban is not a hat" : queer diaspora and practices for profiling -- Conclusion: queer times, terrorist assemblages -- Post-script…
Presents a look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism, from 9/11 to the present, discusses the perpetrators who have acted both in the U.S. and abroad, and examines the controversial tactics used to track potential terrorists. --Publisher's description
What motivates those who commit violence in the name of political beliefs? Terrorism today is not solely the preserve of Islam, nor is it a new phenomenon. It emerges from social processes and conditions common to societies throughout modern history, and the story of its origins…
"Turning to Political Violence, Sageman examines the history and theory of political violence in the West. He excavates primary sources surrounding key instances of modern political violence, looking for patterns across a range of case studies spanning the French Revolution, thr…
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the different aspects of deradicalization theories, programs and methods. It analyzes the practical and theoretical aspects of deradicalization programs and the methods being employed to bring extremists and terrorist back to a non-vio…
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the different aspects of deradicalization theories, programs and methods. It analyzes the practical and theoretical aspects of deradicalization programs and the methods being employed to bring extremists and terrorist back to a non-vio…
In Gentlemanly Terrorists, Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. She reveals how so-called 'Bhadralok dacoits' used assassinations, bomb attacks, and armed robberies to accelerate the departur…
Introduction -- The reforms of 1919: Montagu-Chelmsford, the Rowlatt Act, Jails Commission, and the Royal Amnesty -- The history of revolutionary terrorism through autobiography -- After Chauri Chaura: the revival and repression of revolutionary terrorism -- After the Chittagong…
