Terrorism is a historical problem; however, it becomes one of the biggest problems in 21st century. September 11 and the following Madrid, Istanbul and London attacks showed that it is the most significant problem threatening world peace and security. Governments have started to…
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Major railway stations in England and Wales are highly networked and open locations, frequently crowded, and are vulnerable to criminal and terrorist activities. Successive Government policies and agendas have sought to lessen this susceptibility, by promoting the understanding …
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects and impacts of the war on terror on Islamic charities, in the context of evolution of securitization in policy and practice following the events of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. In the aftermath of 9…
Although there has been a wealth of academic literature which has examined counter-terrorism, both in the general sense and in case study focused approaches, there has seldom been an engagement in terrorism studies literature on the nature of the state itself and how this impact…
This study examines the phenomenon of abusive violence (AV) in the context of the American Post-9/11 Counter-terrorism and Counter-insurgency campaigns. Previous research into atrocities by states and their agents has largely come from examinations of totalitarian regimes with w…
The following dissertation develops a theoretical framework for guiding the strategy of democratic states in successfully countering the hostilities of nationalistic substate terrorist organizations (NSTOs), and effectively manipulating the terrorist group’s (and its supporting …
This work illuminates our understanding of State-Building efforts in Afghanistan since 2001 by analyzing its causes and challenges. The institution's failure and the continued lack of stability have cast doubt on the international community's ability to build a significant state…
Since 2002, Nigeria has grappled with Boko Haram insurgency which has claimed not less than 10,000 lives and destroyed property worth millions of dollars. Available studies on Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria have concentrated on internal causes of the crisis, almost to a total …
This thesis explores the projection of violent direct action in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan since 2007 through May 2011. Machine-coded events data from the free, publicly available, on-line Reuters archives was fitted to both regressor and time series models to test the hyp…
This thesis examines the development of the Home Affairs policies of the New Labour Government (1997-2010) - specifically in the areas of counter-terrorism, policing, and immigration. Much of the most significant research on this government has focussed on political economy or p…