Bücher der Reihe Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

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 discusses terrorism and the rise of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and examines how this movement has become a threat to democracy in the country.The work analyses the rise of Hindu nationalism, culminating in the success of Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the political arm of the movement, in the 2019 Indian national elections. It offers an accessible account of the complexities and subtleties of Hindu nationalism and the dangers it poses to India's pluralistic democracy and secularism. A major theme of the book is the role that terrorism has played in the rise of Hindu nationalism, a factor often underplayed or ignored in other studies, and it also challenges the widespread belief that terrorism is largely an Islamic phenomenon. Employing a cross-disciplinary approach, the book is highly relevant to both academics and policymakers, given India's importance as a major global economic and military power.This book will be of interest to students of terrorism and political violence, South Asian history, Indian politics and international relations, as well as policymakers.

In direct response to the growth of a critical perspective on contemporary issues of terrorism, this edited volume brings together a number of leading scholars to debate the need for and the shape of the exciting new subfield of 'critical terrorism studies'.

This volume brings together interviews with leading scholars to discuss some of the most important issues associated with radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism.

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 edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power through a series of case studies of political violence arising from state `counter-terrorism¿ strategies.

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

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.

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.