Insurgent Terrorism

Name: Insurgent Terrorism
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ISBN: 9780754625834

ISBN-10: 0754625834

ISBN-13: 9780754625834

Edition: 2nd 2006

Authors: Gerald Cromer

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The articles collected together in this volume focus on the rhetoric and propoganda used by insurgent terrorists to justify their resort to violence, drawing attention to both the distinguishing characteristics of ideological, nationalist and religious gr

Book details

List price: $320.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 542
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.96" long x 1.57" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Series preface


Introduction



In the beginning: Understanding the next act




In the Name of the Cause: Terrorism and propaganda: problem and response



When terrorists do the talking: reflections on terrorist literature



Mechanisms of moral disengagement



How violence is justified: Sinn Fein's An Phoblacht



The rhetoric of terrorism




In the Mirror of the Past: Cultural narrative and the motivation of the terrorist



Striking with hunger: cultural meanings of political violence in Northern Ireland



Martyrdom and witnessing: violence, terror and recollection in Cyprus



Narratives of violence




In the Name of God: The logic of religious violence



Messianic sanctions for terror



Violence and catastrophe in the theology of Rabbi Meir Kahane: the ideologization of mimetic desire



Absolute rescue: absolutism, defensive action and the resort to force



A manual of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism



Killing in the name of Islam: al Qaeda's justification for September 11




In Comparison: The role of ideology in terrorists' target selection



Theories of justification and political violence: examples from 4 groups



Borroka - the legitimation of street violence in the political discourse of radical Basque nationalists



Index