Explaining Terrorism: Causes, Processes and Consequences de Martha Crenshaw

Explaining Terrorism: Causes, Processes and Consequences: Political Violence

Autor Martha Crenshaw

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 oct 2010

Înțelegerea fenomenului terorist necesită o perspectivă istorică și metodologică solidă, iar volumul Explaining Terrorism oferă exact acest fundament prin prisma celor patru decenii de cercetare ale Martha Crenshaw. Descoperim aici o structură riguroasă care pornește de la analiza conceptului și a cauzelor, trecând prin abordări organizaționale și psihologice, până la mecanismele prin care guvernele pot contribui la încetarea violenței politice. Reținem în special capitolul dedicat „logicii terorismului” și constrângerilor psihologice, care oferă o rigoare analitică superioară multor texte contemporane reactive.

Progresia tematică a cărții este clară: primele secțiuni clarifică distincția dintre terorismul „vechi” și cel „nou”, în timp ce partea a treia se concentrează pe diplomația coercitivă și strategiile de contraterorism. Această abordare completează perspectiva oferită de Terrorism de Todd Sandler, adăugând o profunzime istorică și o analiză a proceselor decizionale interne din cadrul organizațiilor teroriste, pe care un volum introductiv general nu le poate acoperi în același detaliu. În contextul operei autoarei, Explaining Terrorism acționează ca o sinteză a ideilor dezvoltate în Terrorism in Context-Ppr.-Pod, Ls, rafinând conceptele despre contextul social și economic într-un cadru teoretic unificat.

Recomandăm acest volum pentru claritatea cu care tratează subiectivitatea realităților politice și pentru modul în care explică de ce anumite campanii teroriste sunt abandonate sau respinse. Este o resursă esențială pentru studenții de la Științe Politice și Relații Internaționale, oferind un set de instrumente analitice necesare pentru a naviga prin complexitatea violenței politice contemporane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415780513
ISBN-10: 0415780519
Pagini: 284
Ilustrații: 1 black & white tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Political Violence

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui student sau specialist în securitate care dorește să înțeleagă rădăcinile intelectuale ale studiilor despre terorism. Cititorul câștigă acces la eseurile fundamentale ale Marthei Crenshaw, beneficiind de o analiză care trece dincolo de știri, explicând mecanismele psihologice și strategice din spatele atacurilor. Este un ghid teoretic indispensabil pentru a evalua eficiența politicilor guvernamentale actuale prin prisma lecțiilor istorice.

Despre autor

Martha Crenshaw este profesor de științe politice la Universitatea Wesleyan și este recunoscută la nivel internațional ca unul dintre pionierii studiului academic al terorismului. Expertiza sa s-a cristalizat încă din 1978 cu lucrarea „Revolutionary Terrorism: The FLN in Algeria”, urmată de editarea volumului „Terrorism, Legitimacy, and Power” în 1983. Prin activitatea sa, a pus bazele analizei strategice a terorismului, fiind o voce autoritară în definirea modului în care democrațiile răspund provocărilor violenței politice non-statale.

Descriere scurtă

This volume comprises some of the key essays by Professor Crenshaw, from 1972 to the present-day, on the causes, processes and consequences of terrorism.
Since the early 1970s, scholars and practitioners have tried to explain terrorism and to assess the effectiveness of government responses to the threat. From its beginnings in a small handful of analytical studies, the research field has expanded to thousands of entries, with an enormous spike following the 9/11 attacks. The field of terrorism studies is now impressive in terms of quantity, scope, and variety. Professor Crenshaw had studied terrorism since the late 1960s, well before it was topical, and this selection of her work represents the development of her thought over time in four areas:

defining terrorism and identifying its causes
the different methods used to explain terrorism, including strategic, organisational and psychological approaches
how campaigns of terrorism end
how governments can effectively contribute to the ending of terrorism.

This collection of essays by one of the pioneering thinkers in the field of terrorism studies will be essential reading for all students of political violence and terrorism, security studies and IR/politics in general.

Cuprins

Introduction: Definitions, Approaches, Trajectories, and Responses Part 1: What and Why? 1. The Concept of Terrorism 2. The Causes of Terrorism 3. "Old" vs. "New" Terrorism Part 2: Explaining Terrorism: Organizations, Strategies, and Psychology 4. The Organizational Approach 5. Subjective Realities 6. The Logic of Terrorism 7. Psychological Constraints on Instrumental Reasoning Part 3: Responding to Terrorism 8. Coercive Diplomacy 9. Strategies and Grand Strategies 10. Counterterrorism Policy and the Political Process Part 4: How Terrorism Ends 11. How Terrorism Declines 12. Why Terrorism is Rejected or Renounced

Notă biografică

Martha Crenshaw is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Professor of Political Science, by courtesy, at Stanford University. She is also Professor of Government Emerita at Wesleyan University. She is a lead investigator with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland.

Recenzii

'The leading global thinker on the study of terrorism, Martha Crenshaw has for thirty years produced the most creative, rigorous and important contributions our field has known. And now these can all be found in one place. This book is simply the one indispensable text that every student, scholar and researcher of terrorism and political violence must have. Literally the best of the best.' - John Horgan, Pennsylvania State University
‘Explaining terrorism requires an interdisciplinary approach able to address contextual causes, organizational dynamics and individual motifs. This combination of different levels of the analysis has been at the core of Martha Crenshaw's influential contributions to the field of terrorism study, the best of which are now collected in this precious volume.’ - Donatella della Porta, European University Institute, Florence
'When it comes to the study of terrorism from a genuine social science perspective, professor Martha Crenshaw is the scholar of reference and became so long before the field gained academic centrality worldwide after 9/11.' - Fernando Reinares, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid

'The leading global thinker on the study of terrorism, Martha Crenshaw has for thirty years produced the most creative, rigorous and important contributions our field has known. And now these can all be found in one place. This book is simply the one indispensable text that every student, scholar and researcher of terrorism and political violence must have. Literally the best of the best.' - John Horgan, Pennsylvania State University, USA
‘Explaining terrorism requires an interdisciplinary approach able to address contextual causes, organizational dynamics and individual motifs. This combination of different levels of the analysis has been at the core of Martha Crenshaw's influential contributions to the field of terrorism study, the best of which are now collected in this precious volume.’ - Donatella della Porta, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
'When it comes to the study of terrorism from a genuine social science perspective, professor Martha Crenshaw is the scholar of reference and became so long before the field gained academic centrality worldwide after 9/11.' - Fernando Reinares, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

"In this important volume, the author, a prominent academic expert on terrorism, has assembled her articles, many of which were previously published in the 1980s and 1990s, with a few published after 2001. The result is a comprehensive compilation that is divided into four parts" - Joshua Sinai, ‘Terrorism Bookshelf: Top 150 Books on Terrorism and Counterterrorism’, Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2012)