The Routledge Companion to Terrorism Studies : New Perspectives and Topics (Hardcover)

Introduction?I: RECONCEPTUALIZING TERRORISM?1. Defining Terrorism: Why It Matters?2. Terrorism and Research Design: How to Avoid Common Pitfalls and Learn to Spot Them?3. The Social History of Political Violence?4. State Terrorism: The Elephant in the Room?5. Terrorism and Mass Shootings?6. Terrorism During Civil War?II: UNDERSTUDIED TERRORISTS?7. Militant Islamist Extremism in Southeast Asia?8. Terrorism in the Sahel?9. Terrorism in Latin America: A Neglected Region in Terrorism Studies?10. The Ustasha Regime, 1941-1945: An Understudied Case Study in Terrorism Studies?11. Women's Engagement with Political Violence and Terrorism?12. Terrorism’s Gender Dynamics: Women, Men, and Da’esh?13. Far-Right Terrorism: The History, Present, and Future?III: TERRORIST INNOVATIONS?14. Terrorist Groups and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Growing Threat?15. New and Emerging Technologies for Terrorists?16. Terrorism and Information Warfare?17. Terrorism and Social Media?18. Cyberterrorism: How Terror Groups Use Cyberspace?IV: NEW TOPICS IN TERRORISM STUDIES?19. The Social Ecology of Trauma and Extremist Violence?20. Terrorism and Foreign Interference?21. Terrorism and the United Nations?22. The Great Replacement Theory?23. The Crime-Terror Nexus: A Burgeoning Research Area?24. Vying to Win: Understanding Terrorist Competition?25. Terrorism and Publicity: Is the Conventional Wisdom Changing??V: HOW MUCH HAS TERRORISM REALLY EVOLVED??26. Is the ‘New’ Terrorism of Today Truly New??27. The Evolution of Modern Terrorism?28. The Irish Republican Army: Implications for Terrorism Studies?29. Islamist Political Violence: Deconstructing the Threat?30. Black September and Its Enduring Counterterrorism Legacy?31. The Evolution of Hezbollah?32. Palestinian Terrorism: How Is It Different??VI: RESPONSES TO TERRORISM?33. Is Terrorism an Effective Tactic? Evolution in the Conventional Wisdom?33. Terrorism and Overreaction?34. Human Rights and Terrorism?35. Targeted Killing: Weighing the Pros and Cons?36. The War on Terror: The Past and Future Problem