Bøger i Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies serien

This book provides the first articulation of a specifically critical model of counterterrorism, with an empirical focus on the case of Norway.

This book is a critical analysis of how the discursive and material practices of the 'War on Terror' influenced security politics in Southeast Asia after 9/11.

This interdisciplinary book investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies.

This book offers a critical examination of the functions or ambitions ¿ stated and otherwise ¿ of the counter-terrorism policies of key Western states.

This book offers a wide-ranging and critical examination of recent counter-radicalisation policies, using case studies from several countries.

This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually-affecting relations.

This book offers a multifaceted, analytical account of counterterrorism argumentative speech.

This book explores and inquiries into the interrelation between normativity and Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) from a wide range of critical views.

This book examines potential synergies between the fields of Terrorism Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies.

Argues that state terrorism is a valid and analytically useful concept which can do much to illuminate our understanding of state repression and governance, and illustrates the varieties of actors, modalities, aims, forms, and outcomes of this form of contemporary political violence.

Investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of terrorist and statist discourses in order to reconstruct the dialogue between them.

Investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies.

Offers an evaluation of female suicide bombers through postcolonial, Third World feminist and human rights theoretical frameworks, drawing on case studies from conflicts in Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Chechnya, among others.

Explores the complicity of democratic states from the global North in state terrorism in the global South. This title evaluates the relationship between the use of state terrorism by Northern liberal democracies and efforts by those states to further incorporate the South into the global political economy and to entrench neoliberalism.

Examines the dynamics of the War on Terror, focusing on the theme of the politics of response. This book explores how responses to terrorism - by politicians, authorities and the media - legitimise particular forms of sovereign politics, and how terrorism can be understood as a response to global inequalities, and colonial and imperial legacies.

This edited volume explores political violence and genocide in Latin America during the Cold War, examining this in light of the United States' hegemonic position on the continent.

Through analysing counterterrorism policy and deconstructing its definition of terrorism, this book argues that British counterterrorism strategy is not only counterproductive, but presents an internal risk to national security.

This book provides an account of the history, geopolitics, activities and impact of the rise of the terror experts.

In the years since the 9/11 attacks, terrorism studies has undergone a major transformation from minor subfield of security studies into a large stand-alone field, and is probably one of the fastest expanding areas of research in the Western academic world. This title examines some of the shortcomings and limitations of orthodox terrorism studies.