According to a British intelligence report leaked to the press in 2007, al Qaeda operatives are planning a large-scale attack 'on par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki'. How likely is it that terrorists will develop the capability of such an attack? This work offers an understanding of the situation and teaches us how not to yield to nuclear terror.
How to Stop Genocide, Fight Terrorism, and Defend Freedom
Can genocide and terrorism ever be eliminated? This book says yes. It demonstrates that such atrocities are driven mainly by mass ideological hate incitement. Hence ending the violence requires shutting down the incitement - especially across the Middle East, where a tsunami of hate propaganda drives an epidemic of terrorism.
Understanding Islamic Parties, Political Violence, and Extremism in Paki
What is driving political extremism in Pakistan? How should the US and other Western nations engage with Islamist political parties in nations where they hold both political and moral authority? This book analyzes the origins, ideologies, bases of support, and electoral successes of the largest influential Islamic confessional parties in Pakistan.
Psychosocial Roots, Consequences and Interventions
An analysis of the psychosocial basis of terrorism, offering theory and interventions for understanding, intervening and preventing this challenge to international security. It includes strategies to eliminate the conditions that give rise to terrorism as well as ways to treat terrorism's victims.
A New Comprehensive Strategy for Countering Violent Extremism
The CSIS Commission on Countering Violent Extremism, co-chaired by Tony Blair and Leon Panetta, was formed to develop a comprehensive and actionable blueprint to combat the growing appeal of violent extremism in the United States and abroad. This report is the culmination of the Commission's work.
The true story of operators from a private military contractor working in Iraq shortly after the Gulf War. Steiner had left the British Army to join the gold rush in war-torn Iraq, but grew disillusioned about the declining situation in the country as he believed that the joint US and UK invasion had made things far worse.
Drawing on insights from political science, criminology, and sociology, Torture: An Interdisciplinary Approach investigates the nature and evolution of torture. By surveying the use of torture across time and space, this book considers the development of an international human rights discourse challenging the legitimacy of torture as an instrument ......
In this book , the author explains previously unaddressed historical outcomes resulting from the combined impact of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the United States' subsequent Global War on Terror. While expounding on the finer details of the decades-long interaction between militant jihadism and the Global War on Terror, the analysis ......
Explores the theological underpinnings of al-Qaeda and related Islamic movements such as ISIS. The author demonstrates how this marginal narrative transformed al-Qaeda from a relatively hierarchical and regional organization to a globalized, decentralized, and diffuse system of networks.
Explores the theological underpinnings of al-Qaeda and related Islamic movements such as ISIS. The author demonstrates how this marginal narrative transformed al-Qaeda from a relatively hierarchical and regional organization to a globalized, decentralized, and diffuse system of networks.
Explains how violent and extremist collective behaviour emerges culturally, how it informs the identity of group members socially, and how participants assume their place in these groups completely even at the expense of life-threatening harm to others or to themselves
Who would strap a bomb to his chest, walk into a crowded subway station and blow himself up? This book examines several case studies of various terrorist groups, including: the Provisional Irish Republican Army, Hamas, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and racist Skinheads. It explains how it informs the identity of group members socially.
The Roots of Jihadist Extremism in Pakistan examines Pakistanis' attitudes toward religion, religious minorities, and jihad, as well as the central narratives that define their views of the rest of the world. It then traces the role of education-the lack of access to it and the poor quality and biased curricula of both the mainstream education ......
This book locates ongoing events in the aftermath of September 11 in historical context, analyzes their motive forces and possible outcomes, and examines the alternatives that face the anti-globalization movement and opponents of racism and war.
As a new administration reshapes American security policy, a leading scholar of U.S. foreign relations and national security reviews the most critical problems facing the Middle East, and the United States policy and actions to address them.
As a new administration reshapes American security policy, a leading scholar of U.S. foreign relations and national security reviews the most critical problems facing the Middle East, and the United States policy and actions to address them.
Under the rule of Saddam Hussein, the prison of Abu Ghraib (the Father of the Raven) was a place of ill omen, notorious for horrific suffering and torture and mass executions. After the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military made Abu Ghraib one of the major detention centers for Iraqis suspected of sympathizing with the resistance. The revelations ......
Can harsh interrogation techniques and torture ever be morally justified, for a nation at war or under threat of imminent attack? In this volume, the author takes on ethical debates about counterterrorism techniques that are increasingly central to US foreign policy in the aftermath of 9/11 and discusses ramifications for future of interrogation.
Provides readers with uncovered information on terrorist activities in Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, other Muslim countries - and our neighbour Canada! What emerges is a harrowing picture of international terrorist activities, all aimed at the destruction of the United States and the collapse of the Western world.
This book examines the narratives surrounding the Musa Daghian rebellion and its consequence in present-day Hatay, Turkey. Analyzing both Armenian and Ottoman primary sources, Kemal Cicek examines the Armenian resistance, flight to the Musa Mountain, and eventual rescue by the Allies' navy.
This book argues that apocalypse films offer instruction about architecture's social significance. Through set design, films suggest that certain kinds of architecture support human development, community, and freedom, while other kinds separate us from our fellow humans and make democratic politics impossible.
International Terrorism, Organized Crime, And the Coming Apocalypse
Reveals evidence that al Qaeda has established connections with the Sicilian Mafia, which is helping to finance terrorism through the sale of Number Four heroin, the drug of choice in Europe and the United States. This book demonstrates that by means of this network Osama bin Laden is in a position to execute his dream of an American Hiroshima.
After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014. This transition poses many challenges, and much will depend on the future of Afghan politics, governance, corruption, development, security, and economics. How the United States manages the ......
After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014. This transition poses many challenges, and much will depend on the future of Afghan politics, governance, corruption, development, security, and economics. How the United States manages the ......
After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014. This transition poses many challenges, and much will depend on the future of Afghan politics, governance, corruption, development, security, and economics. How the United States manages the ......
Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror
Explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the "political," even while they are under constant scrutiny and surveillance Since the attacks of 9/11, the banner of national security has led to intense monitoring of the politics of Muslim and Arab Americans. Young people from these communities have ......
Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror
Explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the "political," even while they are under constant scrutiny and surveillance Since the attacks of 9/11, the banner of national security has led to intense monitoring of the politics of Muslim and Arab Americans. Young people from these communities have ......
The NYPD Jewish Cop Who Traveled the World to Stop Terrorists
The biography of New York cop Morty Dzikansky, who has travelled the world to monitor and to help prevent terrorism. Terrorist Cop is a colourful, haunting and highly graphic tale of New York City homicide detective Morty Dzikansky. Post 9/11, the NYPD sent Dzikansky to Israel to monitor suicide bombings as part of Commissioner Ray Kelly's plan to ......
Vicente Medina challenges common misconceptions and excuses for extreme political violence. Countering such axioms as "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist" and the "do whatever it takes" attitude toward counter-terrorism, Medina differentiates between justified political violence and unjustifiable terrorism. Surveying terrorism ......
Terrorism Inside America's Borders examines the history, trends, and different features of terrorism, and how the media, law enforcement, and other social institutions have responded to the violence. A variety of theoretical, methodological and analytical strategies are used to explore these issues.
Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. This work presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods.
Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. This work presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods.
Targets of Terror addresses the repercussions of assassination as a tactic of terrorism and delineates post-assassination political outcomes across target types. Assassination of heads of state, such as John F. Kennedy and Yitzhak Rabin, are rare events, but the political murders of police personnel, local government officials, politicians, and ......
