Understanding terrorism : challenges, perspectives, and issues by Martin, Gus instant download

Understanding terrorism : challenges, perspectives, and issues by Martin, Gus instant download

xxviii, 563, [102] pages : 26 cm, This book provides students with an interesting, accessible and comprehensive exploration of contemporary terrorism. This new edition is completely updated to offer the most recent theories and cases related to terrorist activity and efforts to combat terrorism over the last three years. New topics in this edition include: a new chapter on religious terrorism; coverage of cutting-edge issues; updated pedagogy: opening viewpoints that begin each chapter to express in human terms the roots and responses to terrorism. All maps, tables, case studies, and Web exercises have been updated to help students better understand the concepts and issues presented within the text. In addition, more photos are used to help illustrate the violence caused by terrorist activity as well as provide visual context to other areas of the world and different time periods, Includes bibliographical references and index, About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and rationale -- Part I. Terrorism : a conceptual review. 1. Terrorism : first impressions -- 2. The nature of the beast : defining terrorism -- 3. Beginnings : the causes of terrorism -- Part II. The terrorists. 4. Terror from above : state terrorism -- 5. Terror from below : dissident terrorism -- 6. Violence in the name of the faith : religious terrorism -- 7. Violent ideologies : terrorism from the left and right -- 8. Terrorist spillovers : international terrorism -- 9. Emerging terrorist environments : gender-selective terrorism and criminal dissident terrorism -- Part III. The terrorist trade. 10. Tools of the trade : tactics and targets of terrorists -- 11. The information battleground : terrorist violence and the role of the media -- Part IV. Final analysis. 12. The American case : terrorism in the United States -- 13. Responding to terror : the options -- 14. What next? : the future of terrorism -- Appendix A. Map references -- Appendix B. Historical examples -- Glossary/index