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Item Details
Title:
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COUNTER-TERRORISM AND STATE POLITICAL VIOLENCE
THE 'WAR ON TERROR' AS TERROR |
By: |
Professor Scott Poynting (Editor), David Whyte (Editor) |
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Electronic book text |
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£39.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1136298495 |
ISBN 13: |
9781136298493 |
Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
Pub. date: |
16 May, 2012 |
Series: |
Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies |
Pages: |
264 |
Synopsis: |
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. The book examines how state counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror, in the form of state political violence. It seeks to answer three key questions: To what extent can counter-terror strategies be read as a form of state terror?How fundamental is state terror to the maintenance of a neo-liberal social order?What are the features of counter-terrorism that render it so easily reducible to state terror? In order to explore these issues, and to reach an understanding of what it means to say that the `war on terror' is terror , the contributing authors draw upon case studies from a range of geographical contexts including the UK and Northern Ireland, the US and Colombia, and Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam. Analysing these case studies from a psychological-warfare and hegemonic perspective, the book also includes two chapters from Noam Chomsky and John Pilger, which provide a global and historical context.This book will be of great interest to students of critical terrorism studies, political violence, war and conflict studies, sociology, international security and IR. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Routledge |
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Non-returnable |
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