Description
Book SynopsisAn international, multi-disciplinary team explores the many different facets of terrorism, investigating what it means to be a terrorist and what terrorism means for society.
- Gets closer to the perspectives of terrorists - their views, how their acts are conceptualized by the public and by national leaders, and how this knowledge can be put to use
- Brings together international experts from psychology, psychiatry, law and policing
- Edited by one of the world''s foremost forensic psychology experts, David Canter
Trade Review"Terrorism changes so rapidly that everything published from an academic viewpoint is almost always two years out of date .... so it is no small achievement that this book largely succeeds in what it sets out to do". (Human Givens, 2010)
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii
Preface xiii
1. The Multi-Faceted Nature of Terrorism: An Introduction 1
David Canter
2. From Naïvety to Insurgency: Becoming a Paramilitary in Northern Ireland 19
Neil Ferguson and Mark Burgess
3. The Rhetorical Foundation of Militant Jihad 35
Sudhanshu Sarangi and David Canter
4. Case Study – The Puzzling Case (from a Western Perspective) of Lone Terrorist Faheem Khalid Lodhi 63
Clive Williams
5. The Primacy of Grievance as a Structural Cause of Oppositional Political Terrorism: Comparing Al Fatah, FARC, and PIRA 75
Jeffrey Ian Ross
6. Case Study – The 17th November Group: Europe’s Last Revolutionary Terrorists 97
George Kassimeris
7. Terrorism and Organized Crime: A Theoretical Perspective 123
Dipak K. Gupta, John Horgan and Alex P. Schmid
8. Terrorist Networks and Small Group Psychology 137
Sam Mullins
9. Case Study – Youth Gangs and Terrorism in Chechnya: Recruitment, Activities and Networks 151
Michael Vishnevetsky
10. The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend 169
Kevin Borgeson and Robin Valeri
11. The Business of Kidnap for Ransom 189
Everard Phillips
12. Case Study – Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya: Authoritarian Leadership in the Caucasus 209
John Russell
13. From 7/7 to 8/10: Media Framing of Terrorist Incidents in the United States and United Kingdom 227
Mary Brinson and Michael Stohl
14. Cyberterrorism: The Emerging Worldwide Threat 245
Amanda M. Sharp Parker
15. Disengaging from Terrorism 257
John Horgan
16. De-radicalization and the Staircase from Terrorism 277
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Index 293
