Theories of Terrorism

This book provides students with a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological introduction to terrorism studies.

Autorentext

Daniela Pisoiu is a senior researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip), Vienna, Austria. She obtained her PhD in international relations at the University of St Andrews and is the author of Islamist Radicalisation in Europe: An Occupational Change Process (Routledge, 2011) and editor of Arguing Counterterrorism: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2014).

Sandra Hain is affiliated with the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip), Vienna, Austria.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. The making of terrorism 2. Defining terrorism, Asta Maskaliunaite 3. Studying terrorism 4. Determining individual terrorism 5. Choosing individual terrorism 6. Relational individual terrorism 7. Determining organizational terrorism 8. Choosing organizational terrorism 9. Relational organizational terrorism 10. Individual disengagement, de- and counter-radicalization 11. State terrorism 12. Terrorism in Time and Space 13. Counter-terrorism, Asta Maskaliunaite