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Understanding Terrorism eBook Series

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  • Counterterrorism

    by Ronald Crelinsten ...
    Series series Understanding Terrorism
    Terrorism has emerged as one of the most problematic issues facing national governments and the international community in the 21st century. But how is it possible to counter terrorism in a world in which governance is still dominated by the nation-state? Are we seeing new forms of terrorist activity in the wake of 9/11? Are pre-9/11 approaches still valid? How can we combat and control diverse ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

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  • Frontline Ukraine

    Crisis in the Borderlands

    by Professor Richard Sakwa ...
    The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Dead Center

    Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office

    by Shiya Ribowsky, Tom Shachtman ...
    This insider's account of the NYC medical examiner's office takes readers from an average day in the autopsy room to the tragic aftermath of 9/11.For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City's medical examiner's office—the largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world. Ribowsky led the investigations of more than eight thousand ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Terrorist's Dilemma

    Managing Violent Covert Organizations

    by Jacob N. Shapiro ...
    How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit? The Terrorist's Dilemma is the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups are structured. Employing a broad range of agency theory, historical case studies, and terrorists' own ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Lord's Resistance Army

    Myth and Reality

    by Adam Branch, Andrew Mwenda, Kristof Titeca, Sverker Finnström, Mareike Schomerus, Christopher Blattman, Jeannie Annan, Ben Mergelsberg, Sandrine Perrot, Ronald R. Atkinson, Simon Simonse, Willemijn Verkoren, Gerd Junne, Matthew Brubacher ...
    The Lord's Resistance Army is Africa's most persistent and notorious 'terrorist' group. Led by the mysterious Joseph Kony, it has committed a series of horrific human rights abuses, including massacres and mutilations. Since the mid 1980s, it has abducted tens of thousands of people, including large numbers of children forced to train as fighters. The IC in 2005 issued warrants for Kony and his ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Geopolitics of Energy & Terrorism Part 7

    by Iakovos Alhadeff ...
    The following chapters are independent essays that were written between July 2015 and February 2016. They appear in random order, and therefore they do not have to be read in the order they appear.The issue in all the essays is the connection between the energy policies of various countries, their foreign policies, and the wars that break out at various parts of the globe, since all three are ... Read more

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  • Terrified

    How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream

    by Chris Bail ...
    In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlash, his threat sparked violent protests across the Muslim world that left at least twenty people dead. In Terrified, Christopher Bail demonstrates ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Nexus of Global Jihad

    Understanding Cooperation Among Terrorist Actors

    by Assaf Moghadam ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    Leading jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State dominate through cooperation in the form of knowledge sharing, resource sharing, joint training exercises, and operational collaboration. They build alliances and lesser partnerships with other formal and informal terrorist actors to recruit foreign fighters and spread their message worldwide, raising the aggregate threat level for ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Because It Is Wrong

    Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror

    by Charles Fried, Gregory Fried ...
    Elevating the torture and privacy debate, this book brilliantly challenges the knee-jerk responses of those in media and government.Can torture ever be justified? When is eavesdropping acceptable? Should a kidnapper be waterboarded to reveal where his victim has been hidden? Ever since 9/11 there has been an intense debate about the government’s application of torture and the pervasive use of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka

    Edited by Mahinda Deegalle ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book explores the dilemmas that Buddhism faces in relation to the continuing ethnic conflict and violence in modern Sri Lanka. Prominent scholars in the fields of anthropology, history, Buddhist studies and Pali examine multiple dimensions of the problem. Buddhist responses to the crisis are discussed in detail, along with how Buddhism can help to create ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Great Leap-Fraud

    Social Economics of Religious Terrorism, Volume Ii: Islam and Secularization

    by A. J. Deus ...
    Based on a reassessment of primary documents from the beginning of Judaism through to the Reformation, author A. J. Deus evaluates the Judaic scriptures of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims for their potential to stir hatred, violence, and terrorism. He searches for messages in the scriptures that may alter the economic behavior of societies. In this, the second volume of The Great Leap ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Biometrics in Support of Military Operations

    Lessons from the Battlefield

    by William C. Buhrow ...
    Biometrics in Support of Military Operations: Lessons from the Battlefield examines and evaluates recent U.S. military experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan in the context of the use of biometrics and related technologies. The book takes a comprehensive look at how biometrics has been used to support various military operations and suggests ways that its uses can be further developed. It fills a ... Read more

    $200.00 USD