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

Contributor(s): Jackson, Richard, 1967-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: xv, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780230221178 (hardback)Subject(s): TerrorismGenre/Form: Lehrbuch.DDC classification: 303.625 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"--
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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.

"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"--

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