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by Erik Ringmar
This article investigates the distinction between wars fought against “civilized states” and wars fought against “savages”. It concludes that the United States has been disproportionately engaged in wars of the latter kind. This fact, the argument will be, has given a particular character to the way Americans deal with foreign threats. There is an “American way of war” of which the Bush administration’s response to the terrorist attacks of 2001 is a characteristic expression.
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Critical Terrorism Studies. A new research agenda. by Richard Jackson, Marie Breen Smyth and Jeroen Gunning (Eds.). London, and New York, Routledge, 2009. 274 pp. ISBN10:0-415-45507-3 (hbk)
'War on terror’. The Oxford Amnesty Lectures.
Chris Miller (Ed.). Manchester, University Press, 2009 . 292 pp. ISBN: 978 07190 7975 7 (pbk)
War, Conflict and Human Rights. Theory and Practice.
by Chandra Lekha Sriram, Olga Martin-Ortega and Johanna Herman London and New York, Routledge, 2010. 252 pp., ISBN 10: 0-415-45206-6 (pbp).
Terrorism and Counterterrorism. Understanding Threats and Responses in the Post – 9/11 World. 3rd ed.
by Brigitte Nacos. Boston, Longman, 2010. 334 pp. ISBN-10: 0-205-74327-7.
Understanding Terrorist and Political Violence. The life cycle of birth, growth, transformation, and demise.
by Dipak K. Gupta. London: Routledge, 2008. 283 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-77165-8 (pbk).
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by Matthew Levitt
Over the past several years, terrorist and insurgent groups have established sophisticated networks in Syria to facilitate the movement of foreign fighters into Iraq. These networks are worth closer scrutiny since foreign fighters, facilitated through Syria, have been responsible for some of the most spectacular attacks on Iraqis and coalition forces. Given the priority that Iraq and Syria both play in the Obama administration’s efforts to stabilize the Middle East, as well as the wealth of information now available on Syrian-based foreign fighter facilitation networks, this article provides a case study of Syria, foreign fighters in the Iraqi insurgency, and their economic impact.
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by Clark McCauley and Jennifer Stellar
The terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001 brought increased attention to Muslims living in the United States. Results from four national polls of Muslim Americans conducted between 2001 and 2007 indicate that Muslim Americans feel increasingly negative about the direction in which America is heading and increasingly see the war on terrorism as a war on Islam.
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Monographs and Edited Volumes published in 2009
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Brigitte L Nacos
Contagion refers here to a form of copycat crime, whereby violence-prone individuals and groups imitate forms of (political) violence attractive to them, based on examples usually popularized by mass media. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, for instance, Palestinian terrorists staged a number of spectacular hijackings of commercial airliners, exploited the often prolonged hostage situations to win massive news coverage for their political grievances, and appeared to inspire other groups to follow their example. Although terrorism scholars, government officials, and journalists have pondered the question of mass-mediated contagion for decades, they have arrived at different conclusions. Because of significant advances in communication and information technology, and changes in the global media landscape during the last decade or so, this article reconsiders arguments surrounding contagion theories and contends that various types of media are indeed important carriers of the virus of hate and political violence.
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by Gordon Clubb
Recently, a number of studies have looked at the disengagement/de-radicalisation of terrorist groups and individuals. This article critically assesses part of this literature in relation to the process of voluntary collective disengagement, using the case of the Palestinian Fatah organization as an example. It questions the specific focus of most de-radicalisation studies upon solely ending the use of the terrorist tactic, arguing that the disengagement process should be studied in conjunction with groups ceasing to use other forms of political violence as well. Although the article favours an objective definition of terrorism, it also recognises the salience of the term’s normative power and argues that both perspectives can play a role in the disengagement process.
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