Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Townshend, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192801686 ISBN 13: 9780192801685

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This book charts a path through the outpouring of efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, by asking what makes terrorism different from other forms of political, military action; what makes it effective; and what can be done about it. It unravels complex central questions such as whether terrorists are criminals, whether terrorism is a kind of war, what kind of threat terrorism represents, how far media publicity sustains terrorism, and whether democracy is especially vulnerable to terrorist attack. It examines the historical ideological and local roots of terrorist violence, and the success of specific terrorist and anti-terrorist campaigns in the more distant as well as the recent past.

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Charles Townshend is Professor of International History at Keele University. He has held fellowships at the National Humanities Centre and the Woodrow Wilson International Centre He is the author ofThe British Campaign in Ireland 1919-1921 (1975), Political Violence in Ireland (1983),Britain's Civil Wars: Counterinsurgency in the Twentieth Century (1986),Making the Peace: Public Order and Public Security in Modern Britain (1993), andIreland: The Twentieth Century (1999).


Charles Townshend is Professor of International History at Keele University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0192801686
• ISBN 13: 9780192801685
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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