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Defines in a dictionary style format terms usually associated with terrorism, such as extremist, fundamentalist, and terrorist.

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A controversial and important book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor. Newly updated to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and to include the death of Osama Bin Laden.

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Assassination is a tactic of contemporary terrorism that is understudied in the terrorism and political violence literatures. This book examines the use of assassination in terror campaigns and the political and societal repercussions of these political killings across target types.

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Stohl and Lopez argue that such developments in international aggressive policies demand more serious scholarly attention than has up to now been paid them, and they suggest a number of emerging trends that warrant examination by political scientists.

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This book illuminates the role that images of terror haveplayed up to the present day. The author analyses visualstrategies, places them in their historical context, and answers pressingquestions around the ethical treatment of images of terrorism. It provides avital insight into our age old morbid fascination with terrorism. -- .

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A collection of essays by leading experts that explores the usefulness of the concept of affordance in helping to understand terrorism and political violence.

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This text explains how the social construction of fear is used to steer public and foreign policy, arguing that security policies to protect the citizenry have become control systems that curtail privacy and civil liberties. It has been updated with analysis of recent events, ranging from Israeli-Hamas wars to the growing impact of social media.

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This text explains how the social construction of fear is used to steer public and foreign policy, arguing that security policies to protect the citizenry have become control systems that curtail privacy and civil liberties. It has been updated with analysis of recent events, ranging from Israeli-Hamas wars to the growing impact of social media.

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The United States government-backed by the overwhelming support of the American public-takes a hard line against international terrorism. The tenets of official U.

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This book examines factors facilitating recruitment and radicalization in four organizations in Kenya and Uganda. It considers issues such as the need to belong, religious and ethnic identity, and socioeconomic (education, unemployment) and political circumstances of individuals influenced and radicalized by these organizations.

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Despite the growth of interest in the study of terrorism since 9/11, terrorism analysts rarely take a multidisciplinary approach to the subject.

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Coverage ranges from general treatments of terrorism and tactics of terrorists to material that deals with the terrorist infrastructure, terrorism in specific geographic areas, and responses to terrorism.

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This volume combines a chronology of terrorism, (the fourth Mickolus has produced), with a selective bibliography on the topic, (his third). Covering the period from 1988-1991, this volume follows the same definition of terrorism and the same format and method devised for its predecessor volumes.

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Following previous trends of suicide bombings and violence against Western and local hostages, the 2005-2007 period saw a continuing tide of terrorism.

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This in-depth, historical analysis of terrorism investigates the major funding streams of terrorists, insurgents, guerrillas, warlords, militias, and criminal organizations throughout the world as well as the efforts of the international community to thwart their efforts.

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An up-to-date and comprehensive outline of the United States' response to terrorism, this study deals with all aspects of U.S. antiterrorist policy from the military's role in combatting terrorism to the role of international law and organizations in dealing with terrorists.

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The attacks of September 11, 2001, thrust terrorism to the forefront of critical issues facing the contemporary world and caused Americans to stop thinking of terrorist acts as rare, isolated events.

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While terrorism is hardly a new phenomenon, terrorism by the state and its opponents reached new levels in the twentieth century.

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This reference is essential reading for anyone attempting to understand modern terrorism by studying the arc of terrorism throughout history, from anarchists to Al Qaeda, ISIS, and beyond.

As the rise of ISIS demonstrates, terrorist groups continue to destabilize vital regions around the world.

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Placing terrorist acts within a historical context, this book helps us understand the causes, dynamics and outcomes of terrorism. Providing a concise history of terrorism since the French Revolution, it considers the relationship between terrorism and warfare, crime, technology globalization and the state.