Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 499 pages)
Edition:
Updated edition
ISBN:
9780520966000
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0520966007
Content:
This authoritative work provides an essential perspective on terrorism by offering a rare opportunity for analysis and reflection at a time of ongoing violence, threats, and reprisals. Some of the best international specialists on the subject examine terrorism's complex history from antiquity to the present day and find that terror, long the weapon of the weak against the strong, is a tactic as old as warfare itself. Beginning with the Zealots of the first century CE, contributors go on to discuss the Assassins of the Middle Ages, the 1789 Terror movement in Europe, Bolshevik terrorism during the Russian Revolution, Stalinism, resistance terrorism during World War II, and Latin American revolutionary movements of the late 1960s. Finally, they consider the emergence of modern transnational terrorism, focusing on the roots of Islamic terrorism, al Qaeda, and the rise of the contemporary suicide martyr. Along the way, they provide a groundbreaking analysis of how terrorism has been perceived throughout history. What becomes powerfully clear is that only through deeper understanding can we fully grasp the present dangers of a phenomenon whose repercussions are far from over. In this updated edition, Chaliand and Blin have included a new chapter on ISIS and analysis of key events as they have unfolded including the 2015 Paris attacks." --
Note:
Updated edition with a new preface and final chapter
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preface to the 2016 edition - Preface to the 2007 edition
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Introduction /
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Terrorism as a strategy of insurgency /
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The prehistory of terrorism.
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Zealots and assassins /
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Manifestations of terror through the ages /
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Terrorism from 1789 to 1968.
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The invention of modern terror /
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Anarchist terrorists of the Nineteenth Century /
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Russian terrorism, 1878-1908 /
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The "Golden Age" of terrorism /
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Lenin, Stalin, and State terrorism /
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Terrorism in time of war: from World War II to the wars of national liberation /
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Terrorism since 1968.
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From 1968 to radical Islam /
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The roots of Islamic radicalism /
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Al Qaeda /
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The future of the Islamist movement /
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Suicide operations: between war and terrorism /
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The United States confronting terrorism /
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Terrorism in Southeast Asia--threat and response /
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Jihadism in the age of ISIS /
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Translated from the French
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520292505
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Chaliand, Gérard History of Terrorism : From Antiquity to ISIS Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2016 ISBN 9780520292505
Language:
English
Author information:
Blin, Arnaud 1960-
Author information:
Chaliand, Gérard 1934-
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