Great power war is unthinkable due to the extreme destructiveness of modern weaponry. The book explores the specter of unrestricted warfare in light of Cold War historical precedents. Unless political and economic destabilization are understood as a mode of warfare, the West is at risk of succumbing to pernicious foreign influences.
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 ......
Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate
Today's white supremacist activism originated in carefully cultivated homes, parties, rituals, music festivals, and digital media and went on to reshape the U.S. political landscape. With powerful case studies, interviews, and first-person accounts, the third edition of American Swastika guides readers through these hidden enclaves of hate to link ......
Before the rise of the Al-Shabaab, Eastern Africa was home to different organizational nodes of the Al- Qaeda network. Al-Qaeda was responsible for many threats, of which include the August 7, 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. As terrorism threats have evolved over the years, countermeasures have continued to do the same. Countering Violent ......
From the First Egyptian National Jihadists to Al-Qaeda
At the turn of the Twenty-first century, a number of violent jihadi groups laid down their arms, as in the case of Egypt and Libya. Many of those former fighters ceased actual violence, and some of them took a step forward, initiating processes of ideological de-radicalization and doctrinal changes that deeply transformed their stance towards the ......
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.
Armed Groups is the most comprehensive text to provide a framework for categorizing the key actors that pose a threat to today's security arena-terrorists, mercenaries, insurgents, militias, and transnational criminal organizations-and analyzing their characteristics to provide a thorough overview. Drawing on case studies, histories, and a rich, ......
Armed Groups is the most comprehensive text to provide a framework for categorizing the key actors that pose a threat to today's security arena-terrorists, mercenaries, insurgents, militias, and transnational criminal organizations-and analyzing their characteristics to provide a thorough overview. Drawing on case studies, histories, and a rich, ......