Description
Book SynopsisThis volume is an interdisciplinary investigation of the phenomenon of terrorism in its political, social and economic context as it has occurred throughout the world from the 19th century to the present.
Trade Review“Martha Crenshaw, a scholar of repute on terrorism, has done a commendable job of compiling fourteen essays grouped under three broad categories of terrorism. . . . Those cases of terrorism which are peculiar in nature or have caused serious consequences to domestic political processes are included under each category. They spread across the world covering developed and developing States, include both democratic and authoritarian regimes, represent the past and the present, explain continuities and discontinuities in the development of violent political action in a variety of contexts, and situate terrorism in the paradigm of relationship between State and society and between Governments and oppositions.”
—P. Sahadevan International Studies
Table of ContentsContents
1. Thoughts on Relating Terrorism to Historical Contexts Martha Crenshaw
2. The Intellectual Origins of Modern Terrorism in Europe
Martin A. Miller
3. Russian Revolutionary Terrorism
Philip Pomper
4. Left-Wing Terrorism in Italy
Donatella della Porta
5. West German Left-Wing Terrorism
Peter H. Merkl
6. Political Violence in Argentina: Guerrillas, Terrorists, and Carapintadas
Richard Gillespie
7. The Revolutionary Terrorism of Peru's Shining Path
David Scott Palmer
8. The Culture of Paramilitarism in Ireland
Charles Townshend
9. Political Violence and Terrorism in India: The Crisis of Identity
Paul Wallace
10. Political Violence in a Democratic State: Basque Terrorism in Spain
Goldie Shabad and Francisco Jose Llera Ramo
11. The Effectiveness of Terrorism in the Algerian War
Martha Crenshaw
12. Terrorism in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Targets and Audiences
Ian S. Lustick
13. Terrorism and Politics in Iran
Jerrold D. Green
14. Terrorism in the Context of Academic Research
Michel Wieviorka
