Anthony Richards

Conceptualizing Terrorism

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Produktbeschreibung

This volumes provides a rigorous analysis and overview of differing definitions of terrorism and their implications, and concludes with the author's detailed conceptualisation of terrorism

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780198746966
• ISBN-10: 0198746962
• Artikelnr.: 47866445

Autorenporträt

Anthony Richards is a Reader in Terrorism Studies in the School of Business and Law at the University of East London, where he teaches on the MSc Critical Perspectives on Terrorism and Critical Perspectives on Counter-Terrorism modules. He is the lead editor for the volume Terrorism and the Olympics: Major Event Security and Lessons for the Future (London: Routledge, 2011), and has published on a wide variety of other terrorist related themes including radicalisation and extremism, UK counter-terrorism, British public and Muslim attitudes towards both terrorism and UK counter-terrorism, homeland security, and terrorism in Northern Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: The Importance of an Agreed Definition of Terrorism
* 3: The Evolution of the Definitional Debate - The Policymaking
Perspective
* 4: The Meaning of Terrorism - An Academic Perspective
* 5: Three Preliminary Assumptions When Approaching the
Conceptualization of Terrorism
* 6: Implications of the Assumption that Non-Civilians and Combatants
Can Also Be Victims of Terrorism
* 7: What Terrorism Is Not
* 8: Drawing a Distinction Between Political 'Terror' and 'Terrorism'
* 9: Further Potential Components of a Definition of Terrorism
* 10: Conclusion