Terrorism

This book describes the intense mobilization of American society in the Global War on Terrorism coupled with trends in progress before 9/11. With its focus on maximizing civilian casualties, terrorism has been uniquely able to arouse the popular emotion...

This unique work analyzes for the first time how foreign-affinity terrorism works in a major democratic nation like the United States, and what this country must do to survive the terror challenge, on both conventional and unconventional levels. To date,...

On 20th November 1979, the Salafi Group, led by a charismatic figure named Juhaiman al-Utaibi, seized control of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in the Muslim World. The Salafi Group was not trying to establish an Islamic state. Instead, its...

This fascinating study shows how terrorism as developed and practiced in Romanov Russia has, over the past century, manifested itself as the template for modern and postmodern terrorism as a universal sociocultural, psychological, and existential...

Applying fresh tools from economics to explain puzzling behaviors of religious radicals: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish; violent and benign. How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the...

Feste develops a framework of terrorism termination dynamics constructed from empirical cases and applies it to the current al Qaeda problem to offer a new method for tracking development of terrorist episodes with implications for U.S. foreign policy...

Treating Weapons Proliferation is a chilling exploration of the dynamics of weapons proliferation and nonproliferation. In an analogy with the disease of cancer, the book walks the reader through the history of the phenomenon with its growing...

In the context of the 'global war on terror', the issue of security has come to affect more and more intimate elements of people's everyday lives. This is the starting point of this interdisciplinary collection, which focuses on how the line between...

Saudi Arabia influences American policy through both conventional and unconventional methods, all due to the petro-dollars that have been generated from America's addiction to foreign oil. With chapters written by renowned experts, this book uses...

This book addresses a dilemma at the heart of counter-terrorist policy: is it ever justifiable to torture terrorists in order to save the lives of others, the so-called 'ticking bomb' scenario? The book opens with an analysis of the pure moral argument...

The psychology of terrorism, in its most basic form, is about fear. Although academics continue to debate the meaning of terrorism, the end result for victims of terrorism is very often fear and terror. Many studying the effects of terrorism have focused...

What is terrorism? How is it different from other kinds of political violence? Why exactly is it wrong? Why is war often thought capable of being justified? On what grounds should we judge when the use of violence to be morally acceptable? It is often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462701991Author Serafettin PektasFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 370g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620972571Author Wolfgang BauerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press

An autobiography of a scholar-teacher who devoted his career to the study of Chinese history and the promotion of Asian studies in America.Book InformationISBN 9781563247637Author C. Martin WilburFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint M.E. SharpePublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225905Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 194g

This seminal work on modern terrorism is the one book to read in order to truly understand the reasons why radical Muslims such as Osama bin Laden and his followers have declared war on America and the West. In order to win the war against terrorism,...

Since the events of September 11 2001, the uses of the word terrorism seem to have multiplied, and it has never been clearer that one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. This No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism looks at debates about September 11...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977407191Author Scott W HaroldFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint RANDPublisher RAND

In the last decade, America's priorities have changed. National security has become the primary concern for citizens and a top priority for government officials. Billions of dollars have been spent fighting the war on terror, and millions more have been...

The term 'War on Terror' (WOT) covers a mass of interlinked topics. Here an outstanding group of authors and academics dissect them from ethical, political, legal, economic and historical perspectives.Drawn from the world-famous Oxford Amnesty Lectures,...

Accessibly written and based on extensive research, Paul Dixon's book provides an introduction to the nature and politics of the Northern Ireland Conflict and of successive attempts to resolve it. Attempting to separate "propaganda war" rhetoric from...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895261359Author Dore GoldFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery Publishing IncPublisher Regnery Publishing IncWeight(grams) 581g

Islamic State stunned the world when it overran an area the size of Britain on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border in a matter of weeks and proclaimed the birth of a new Caliphate. In this timely and important book, Abdel Bari Atwan draws on his...

Jason Burke's bestseller "Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam" shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'. Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715630488Author Michael PearsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co LtdPublisher Duckworth OverlookWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833094810Author Seth G. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 149mm * 6mm

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Within a year of President George W. Bush announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq in May 2003, dozens of attacks by insurgents had claimed hundreds of civilian and military lives. Through 2004 and 2005, accounts from returning veterans...

Powerfully argued and thought-provoking, "Terrorism and Global Disorder" asks to what extent the world really changed as a result of the events of 11 September 2001. It argues that the significance of the assault on America has been overstated and that...

Based on the only interviews ever carried out with the two main conspirators of the 11th September attacks, MASTERMINDS OF TERROR is the incredible account of how Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed plotted the assaults on the World Trade Center,...

From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying, today's governments have harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. But what happens when ordinary people have the same tools at their fingertips? Advances in...

Volume 110 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, "Assessing the GWOT", provides researchers with a one-volume update on how the U.S. is faring in its global war on terrorism, or "GWOT". The volume pays special attention to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410215932Author Debra D ZedalisFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

A must-read for every concerned citizen, this absorbing book goes inside the mind of the psychological terrorist to look at what motivates him to act and to choose the weapon he does. Created by a team of experts in military science and psychology, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788194261896Author Musa JalalzaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint VIJ Books (India) Pty LtdPublisher VIJ Books (India) Pty Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389620771Author Musa Khan JalalzaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Vij Books IndiaPublisher Vij Books IndiaWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389620801Author Noor DahriFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint VIJ Books (India) Pty LtdPublisher VIJ Books (India) Pty Ltd

The author has discussed six insurgencies that have taken roots in India from its inception. He has gone into the details of its causes and spread as relevant to various insurgencies in different parts of India. The author has supported most of the...