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“alex schmid”

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  • The Politics Of Pain

    Torturers And Their Masters

    by Ronald D Crelinsten, Alex Schmid ...
    Although a wave of democratization appears to be sweeping the globe, torture persists in more than seventy-five nations. Despite widespread condemnation of torture and the efforts of international and nongovernmental organizations to end it, the "politics of pain" continues in a broad range of social and political systems. This book is one of the first to systematically examine the psychological, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research

    Edited by Alex Schmid ...
    This major new Handbook synthesises more than two decades of scholarly research, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field of terrorism studies.The content of the Handbook is based on the responses to a questionnaire by nearly 100 experts from more than 20 countries as well as the specific expertise and experience of the volume editor and the various contributors. Together, they guide the ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

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  • Enemies

    A History of the FBI

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    The hidden history of the FBI and its hundred-year war against terrorists, spies, and anyone it deemed subversive—including even American presidents.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A SHOWTIME ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES“Turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as compelling, and important, as today’s headlines.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author of American HeiressEnemies is the first d... ... Read more

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  • Common Sense

    by Thomas Paine ...
    "Common Sense" is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) was an English-American ... Read more

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  • Crush the Cell

    How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves

    by Michael A. Sheehan ...
    Written by a man who is arguably the country’s most authoritative voice on counterterrorism, Crush the Cell demolishes, with simple logic, the edifice of false “terror punditry” that has been laid, brick by brick, since 9/11. A veteran of special ops, international diplomacy, and bruising clashes with federal law enforcement agencies, Michael Sheehan delivers in this book a two-part message: First ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Good Fight

    From Bullets to Bylines - 45 Years Face-to-Face with Terror

    by Jim McDowell ...
    The year is 1969. The start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Jim McDowell, a rookie reporter, it was the beginning of a life at the heart of one of world's most notorious and bitter conflicts. His gripping memoir reveals what it was like to live under constant fear of attack and delves into Northern Ireland's criminal underworld, including Jim's tense encounters with infamous terrorist ... Read more

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  • Anarchism

    by Paul Eltzbacher ...
    Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations. Proponents of anarchism (known as ":anarchists") advocate stateless societies based on non-hierarchical voluntary associations. ... Read more

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  • Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-Radicalisation

    New Approaches to Counter-terrorism

    Edited by Lawrence Rubin, Rohan Gunaratna, Jolene Jerard ...
    Series series Political Violence
    This book seeks to explore the new frontiers in counter-terrorism research, analyses and practice, focusing on the imperative to rehabilitate terrorists.The post-9/11 world is in a very early stage of global rehabilitation both of terrorists and criminals. Nonetheless, some correctional rehabilitation programs have led convicted and suspected terrorists to express remorse, repent, and recant their ... Read more

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  • A Poet and Bin-Laden: A Reality Novel

    by Hamid Ismailov ...
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    A Poet and Bin-Laden is a novel set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond.The story begins on the eve of 9/11, with the narrator’s haunting description of the airplane attack on the Twin Towers as seen on TV while he is on holiday in Central Asia. Subsequent chapters shift backwards and forwards in ... Read more

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  • Thinking Like a Terrorist

    by Mike German ...
    As the fifth full year of AmericaÆs global war on terrorism continues, statistics concerning terrorist attacks show a disturbing trend: from a twenty-one-year high in 2003, attacks tripled in 2004 and then doubled in 2005. And as the incidence of terrorist attacks increased, so has the number of terrorists. While the primary leaders of the Taliban, al Qaeda, and al Qaeda in Iraq remain at large, ... Read more

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  • Crime-Terror Alliances and the State

    Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security

    by Ted Robert Gurr, Lyubov Mincheva ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate."Unholy alliances" is a term used to describe hybrid trans-border militant and criminal networks that pose serious threats to security in Europe and elsewhere. Identity networks provide the basis for militant organizations using violent ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Militancy and Political Violence in Shiism

    Trends and Patterns

    Edited by Assaf Moghadam ...
    Series series Political Violence
    This book is the first systematic assessment of current trends and patterns of militancy in Shii communities in the Middle East and South Asia - specifically in Iran, Iraq, but also in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and BahrainMore than thirty years after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, there are signs of a growing assertiveness on the part of Shii actors, at times erupting ... Read more

    $68.99 USD