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Terrorism : a very short introduction / Charles Townshend.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Townshend, Charles, author.
- Series:
- Very short introductions ; 78.
- Very short introductions ; 78
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Fully updated new edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Is terrorism crime or war? Can there be a 'war against terrorism?' In this fully updated edition, Charles Townshend unravels the questions at the heart of the problem of terrorism (ts causes, methods, effects, and limitations) suggesting that it must be understood as a political strategy whose threat can be rationally grasped and answered"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- The trouble with terrorism
- Crusaders and conspirators
- The reign of terror
- Revolutionary terrorism
- Nationalism and terror
- Religious terror
- Countering terrorism.
- Notes:
- "First edition published 2002, Second edition published 2011"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-155) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780198809098
- 0198809093
- OCLC:
- 1038433115
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