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Contemporary State Terrorism: Theory and Practice

Contemporary State Terrorism: Theory and Practice

Murphy, Eamon
Jackson, Richard
Poynting, Scott

Paperback

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

General Military HistoryGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0415664470
ISBN13: 9780415664479
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 24 2011
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume aims to 'bring the state back into terrorism studies' and fill the notable gap that currently exists in our understanding of the ways in which states employ terrorism as a political strategy of internal governance or foreign policy.

Within this broader context, the volume has a number of specific aims. First, it aims to make the argument that state terrorism is a valid and analytically useful concept which can do much to illuminate our understanding of state repression and governance, and illustrate the varieties of actors, modalities, aims, forms, and outcomes of this form of contemporary political violence. Secondly, by discussing a rich and diverse set of empirical case studies of contemporary state terrorism this volume explores and tests theoretical notions, generates new questions and provides a resource for further research. Thirdly, it contributes to a critical-normative approach to the study of terrorism more broadly and challenges dominant approaches and perspectives which assume that states, particularly Western states, are primarily victims and not perpetrators of terrorism. Given the scarceness of current and past research on state terrorism, this volume will make a genuine contribution to the wider field, particularly in terms of ongoing efforts to generate more critical approaches to the study of political terrorism.

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