Modernity and terrorism [electronic resource] : from anti-modernity to modern global terror / by Milan Zafirovski, Daniel G. Rodeheaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zafirovski, Milan, 1958-

Contributor:

Rodeheaver, Daniel Gilbert, 1954-

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences 52.

Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; volume 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism.

State-sponsored terrorism.

Terrorism--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Modernity and Terrorism: From Anti-Modernity to Modern Global Terror Milan Zafirovski and Daniel G. Rodeheaver analyze the nature, types, and causes of contemporary global terrorism. The book redefines modern terrorism in a novel more comprehensive manner compared to the previous literature. It examines counter-state and state terrorism, with an emphasis on the latter in light of its scale, persistence, and intensity as well as its relative neglect in the literature. The book identifies and predicts the general cause of most modern terrorism in anti-modernity as the adverse reaction to and reversal of liberal-democratic, secular, rationalistic, and globalized, modernity. In essence, it discovers and predicts anti-liberalism in the form of conservatism as the main source and force of modern terrorism.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

The Concept of Modern Terrorism

Classification of Modern Terrorism

Anti-Modernity and Modern Terrorism

Anti-Liberalism and Modern Terrorism

Anti-Secularism and Modern Terrorism

Anti-Rationalism and Modern Terrorism

Anti-Globalism and Modern Terrorism

Conclusions

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-24288-0

OCLC:

847132991

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004242883 DOI