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Subject(s)

• Terrorism [Browse]

Series

Routledge revivals. [More in this series]

Summary note

"This title was first published in 2001. Terrorism is today a global problem and, as was recently demonstrated in Kenya and Tanzania, no country is immune. Terrorism occurs everywhere (villages and cities), it targets innocent people and terrorists who are ideologically opposed to one country can vent their anger against citizens of another. Addressing this crucial issue, this book examines the future of global terrorism by employing the World System's perspectives in the explanation of terrorism and investigating the etiological determinants of international terrorism. It aims to articulate a theoretical explanation of terrorism which will assist the development of practical policies that are effective in counter-terrorism operations. The main features of the book include World System's Theory (WST), the relevance of WST, factors affecting the definition of terrorism, structural terrorism in the WST, application of Fanon, the political dimension of terrorism ideologies, the disadvantages of ideological labels, measuring WST position and the distribution of terrorism, terrorist incidents by WST position of occurrence and WST position of target, labelling terrorism in context, powerism and anti-powerism, racial terrorism and global apartheid and the criminalization of terrorism."--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Chapter 1 World Systems Theory
• chapter 2 Terrorism: Definitional Problems
• chapter 3 Terrorism in the World System
• chapter 4 Data Methods
• chapter 5 Analysis of the RAND Chronology of International Terrorism: 1987
• chapter 6 Labeling Terrorism in Context
• chapter 7 Inter-Continental Terrorism
• chapter 8 Summary, Racial and Global Terrorism.

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ISBN

• 1-351-73931-X
• 1-351-73930-1
• 1-315-18717-5

OCLC

1003967112

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