From Liberation Wars to Global Jihad and the Islamic State
Drawing from a unique dataset compiled over a decade, this text examines why women join terrorist organizations and why groups choose to incorporate them into their structures and operations, covering both religious and ethno-nationalist-motivated terrorism and conflict.
From Liberation Wars to Global Jihad and the Islamic State
Drawing from a unique dataset compiled over a decade, this text examines why women join terrorist organizations and why groups choose to incorporate them into their structures and operations, covering both religious and ethno-nationalist-motivated terrorism and conflict.
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.
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.
Volatile Social Movements and the Origins of Terrorism: The Radicalization of Change, by Christine Sixta Rinehart, concentrates on the origins of terrorism and what causes social movements to become terrorist organizations. The scope of the book includes four terrorist organizations: the Muslim Brotherhood, the ETA, the FARC, and the LTTE.
Terrorism didn't always get bad press. In fact, terror bombing was indispensable to winning World War II, and during the Cold War the threat of nuclear annihilation became the strategy to deter war between the superpowers. In this work, Ron Hirschbein discusses the competing d...
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.
