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Title

The new age of terrorism and the international political system / Adrian Guelke.

Author

Guelke, Adrian.

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Additional Authors

Guelke, Adrian.

Description

xxiii, 238 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Did the 9/11 attacks on the US usher in a new age of mass-casualty terrorism and war on terrorist groups of a global reach? This title questions whether terrorism has evolved into a new form of political violence or whether it remains essentially unchanged.

Subject

• Terrorism
• Terrorism > History
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence
• Political violence
• Political violence > History
• Terrorism and globalization

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Originally published: The age of terrorism and the international political system / Adrian Guelke. 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-227) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the new age of terrorism -- Barriers to understanding terrorism -- Distinguishing terrorism form other forms of violence -- The poverty of general explanations -- Varieties of terrorisms -- The legitimizations of terrorism -- On the fringe: political violence in stable democracies -- Bomb culture: the case of northern Ireland -- Violence, inequality, and the third world. -- The international dimensions of terrorism -- Stopping terrorism -- The end of terrorism.

ISBN

• 9781845118037 (pbk.)
• 1845118030 (pbk.)

OCLC

221168108

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library