The Globalization of Terrorism / Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D., author.

Series:

Routledge revivals.

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 171 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.

Summary:

"This title was first published in 2001. Terrorism is today a global problem and, as was recently demonstrated in Kenya and Tanzania, no country is immune. Terrorism occurs everywhere (villages and cities), it targets innocent people and terrorists who are ideologically opposed to one country can vent their anger against citizens of another. Addressing this crucial issue, this book examines the future of global terrorism by employing the World System's perspectives in the explanation of terrorism and investigating the etiological determinants of international terrorism. It aims to articulate a theoretical explanation of terrorism which will assist the development of practical policies that are effective in counter-terrorism operations. The main features of the book include World System's Theory (WST), the relevance of WST, factors affecting the definition of terrorism, structural terrorism in the WST, application of Fanon, the political dimension of terrorism ideologies, the disadvantages of ideological labels, measuring WST position and the distribution of terrorism, terrorist incidents by WST position of occurrence and WST position of target, labelling terrorism in context, powerism and anti-powerism, racial terrorism and global apartheid and the criminalization of terrorism."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 World Systems Theory

chapter 2 Terrorism: Definitional Problems

chapter 3 Terrorism in the World System

chapter 4 Data Methods

chapter 5 Analysis of the RAND Chronology of International Terrorism: 1987

chapter 6 Labeling Terrorism in Context

chapter 7 Inter-Continental Terrorism

chapter 8 Summary, Racial and Global Terrorism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-73931-X

1-351-73930-1

1-315-18717-5

9781315187174

OCLC:

1003967112