"Following the protest movements and radicalism of the late sixties, many affluent countries experienced lethal revolutionary terrorism. Groups like the Red Brigades in Italy and the Red Army Faction in Germany provoked political crises in their countries. Other affluent countri…
Introduction: constructions of terrorism / Michael Stohl, Scott Englund, and Richard Burchill -- Can terrorism be defined? / Lisa Stampnitzky -- Misoverestimating terrorism / John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart -- Terrorism as tactic / David H. Schanzer -- The construction of state…
Introduction : history, narrative, and the War on Terror -- "All the world was America" : the long history of Homeland Security -- "A general principle of democracy" : terror and colonial modernity -- "Choc en retour" : security, terror, theory -- "Vanishing points" : postcoloni…
"When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened on the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror contends, the colonial modernity within which we still live. And its enduring feat…
The spread of violent extremism, 9/11, the rise of ISIL and movement of 'foreign terrorist fighters' are dramatically expanding the powers of the UN Security Council to govern risky cross-border flows and threats by non-state actors. New security measures and data infrastructure…
"John Poole has written a though-provoking and intriguing work in Tequila Junction. He has masterfully made the case for attention and action toward threats being ignored due to our myopic focus on Islamic extremism. This is another exceptional volume to add to his superb collec…
"Wondering why so much inexpensive white heroin is now reaching U.S. streets? Read this book. Drugs produce big money, and big money ... political leverage. Only five "rightist" regimes now remain in the Western Hemisphere. Peru was last to elect a leftist president, and Mexico …
'Writing The War On Terrorism' examines the public language of the war on terrorism, and the way that rhetoric has been used to justify the global counter-terrorism offensive as a response to 9/11.
"Surveillance presents a conundrum: how to ensure safety, stability, and efficiency while respecting privacy and individual liberty. From police officers to corporations to intelligence agencies, surveillance law is tasked with striking this difficult and delicate balance. That …
"This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually-affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in 'rogue' states; 'outsourcing' of state militancy; and th…
This new edited volume expands our understanding of the processes by which individuals and groups disengage from terrorism. While there has been a growing awareness of the need to understand and prevent processes of radicalization into terrorism, disengagement and deradicalizati…
