Contemporary Debates on Terrorism

Herausgeber: Jackson, Richard; Pisoiu, Daniela

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Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Debates on Terrorism is an innovative textbook, addressing a number of key issues in terrorism studies from both traditional and 'critical' perspectives. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to cover such contemporary issues as the rise of ISL and cyber-terrorism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9781138931350
• ISBN-10: 1138931357
• Artikelnr.: 57055729

Autorenporträt

Richard Jackson is Professor of Peace Studies and Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the founding editor and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism and editor of the Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies book series. His most recent publications include the Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies (Routledge, 2016) and Confessions of a Terrorist (2014). Daniela Pisoiu is a Senior Researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP), Vienna, Austria. She is author of Islamist Radicalisation in Europe: An Occupational Change Process (Routledge, 2011), co-author of Theories of Terrorism: An Introduction (Routledge, 2017) and editor of Arguing Counterterrorism: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: contemporary debates on terrorism, Richard Jackson and
Daniela Pisoiu PART I: THE DEFINITION AND STUDY OF TERRORISM 1. Is
terrorism still a useful analytical term or should it be abandoned? YES: An
agreed concept is possible and useful, Anthony Richards NO: A landscape of
meaning: constructing understandings of political violence from the broken
paradigm of 'terrorism', Dominic Bryan 2. Is Critical Terrorism Studies a
useful approach for the study of terrorism? YES: The necessity of a
critical approach, Christopher Baker-Beall NO: Don't give it the oxygen of
publicity, Roger Mac Ginty PART II: CATEGORIES OF TERRORISM 3. Is there a
'new terrorism' in existence today? YES: The relevance of the 'new
terrorism' concept, Ersun N. Kurtulus NO: The fallacy of the new terrorism
thesis, Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Leena Malkki 4. Can states be terrorists?
YES: Terrorism is an equal opportunity tactic, Scott Englund and Michael
Stohl NO: State terrorism: who needs it?, Colin Wight PART III: THE
TERRORISM THREAT 5. Is terrorism a serious threat to international and
national security? YES: The continuing threat to state security, James Lutz
and Brenda Lutz NO: The myth of terrorism as an existential threat,
Jessica Wolfendale 6. Is WMD terrorism a likely prospect in the future?
YES: The impact of CBRN terrorism - a general perspective, Natvidad
Carpintero-Santamaria NO: WMD terrorism: the prospects, John Mueller 7. Is
cyber-terrorism a real threat? YES: Why we should start from this
assumption, Maura Conway NO: A narrated catastrophe, not a real threat,
Myriam Dunn Cavelty 8. Does al Qaeda still pose the more significant
threat? YES: The enduring al-Qaeda threat: a network perspective, Jeffrey
B. Cozzens and Magnus Ranstorp NO: Al-Qaeda: a diminishing threat, Lee
Jarvis 9. Are returning foreign fighters future terrorists? YES: Returning
foreign fighters are future terrorists, Edwin Bakker and Jeanine de Roy van
Zuijdewijn NO: Terrorists returning home were not radicalized abroad,
Richard Bach Jensen and Felix Lippe PART IV: THE CAUSES OF TERRORISM 10. Is
terrorism the result of root causes such as poverty and exclusion? YES: How
structural factors explain terrorism, Dipak Gupta NO: Poverty and exclusion
are not the root causes of terrorism, Graham R. Huesmann and L. Rowell
Huesmann 11. Is religious extremism a major cause of terrorism? YES:
Religious extremism as a major cause of terrorism, Amanda Munroe and
Fathali M. Moghaddam NO: 'Religious terrorism' as ideology, Jeff Goodwin
PART V: DEALING WITH TERRORISM 12. Are counterterrorism frameworks based on
suppression and military force effective in responding to terrorism? YES:
The use of force to combat terrorism, Boaz Ganor NO: Wars on terror -
learning the lessons of failure, Paul Rogers 13. Are drones a useful
counterterrorism tool? YES: But the means must justify the ends, Christine
Sixta Rinehart NO: Drones create a perpetual war for perpetual peace, Rory
Finegan 14. Are counter-radicalisation approaches an effective
counterterrorist tool? YES: An effective counterterrorism tool, Daniel
Koehler NO: A suspect counterterrorism 'science' that ignores economic
marginalisation, foreign policy and ethics, Charlotte Heath-Kelly 15. Is
mass surveillance a useful tool in the fight against terrorism? YES:
Keeping us safe now and helping us improve for the future, Jesse Paul
Lehrke NO: A high cost, low reward approach, Ivan Greenberg 16. Have global
efforts to reduce terrorism and political violence since 9/11 been
effective? YES: 'Looking for a needle in a stack of needles', Mark Cochrane
and Gabrielle Nugent NO: 'Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut', Rachel
Monaghan