The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism

by Chenoweth, Erica; English, Richard; Gofas, Andreas; Kalyvas, Stathis N.

• ISBN13: 9780198732914
• ISBN10: 0198732910
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-05-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism systematically integrates the substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues in studying and teaching these vital phenomena. This Handbook goes further than most existing collections by giving structure and direction to the fast-growing but somewhat disjointed field of terrorism studies.

The volume locates terrorism within the wider spectrum of political violence instead of engaging in the widespread tendency towards treating terrorism as an exceptional act. Moreover, the volume makes a case for studying terrorism within its socio-historical context. Finally, the volume addresses the critique that the study of terrorism suffers from lack of theory by reviewing and extending the theoretical insights contributed by several fields - including political science, political economy, history, sociology, anthropology, criminology, law, geography, and psychology. In doing so, the volume showcases the analytical advancements and reflects on the challenges that remain since the emergence of the field in the early 1970s.

Author Biography

Erica Chenoweth is a Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and, beginning in 2019, the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Foreign Policy magazine ranked her among the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013 for her work to advance the empirical study of civil resistance. Her book, Why Civil Resistance Works(Columbia University Press, 2011) with Maria J. Stephan, also won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Chenoweth has authored or edited five books and dozens of articles on political violence and its alternatives. She earned a PhD and an MA from the University of Colorado and a BA from the University of Dayton.


Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also Distinguished Professorial Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice. He is the author of eight books, including the award-winning studies Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003) and Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (2006). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Honorary Fellow of Keble College Oxford, and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews.


Andreas Gofas is Associate Professor of International Relations at Panteion University of Athens and director of the Center for the Analysis of Terrorism and European Security (CATES) at the European Law and Governance School. His publication include The Sage Handbook of the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of International Relations (co-edited with Inanna Hamati-Ataya and Nicholas Onuf, Sage, 2018), and The Role of Ideas in Political Analysis (co-edited wtih Colin Hay, Routledge, 2012).


Stathis N. Kalyvas is the Gladstone Professor of Government at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College. Prior to his appointment at Oxford, he was the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also founded and headed the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence. His publications include Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP, 2015), and The Logic of Violence in Civil War (CUP, 2006).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Study of Terrorism: Achievements and Challenges Ahead, Erica Chenoweth and Andreas Gofas
Part One: Concepts and Typologies
2. The Landscape of Political Violence, Stathis Kalyvas
3. Defining Terrorism: A Conceptual Minefield, Ben Saul
4. The Evolution of Terrorism Event Databases, Gary LaFree
5. The Moral Dimensions of Terrorism, Virginia Held
Part Two: The History of Terrorist Violence
6. The Pre-History of Terrorism, Warren C. Brown
7. European Political Violence During the Long 19th Century, Martin A. Miller
8. The Long 20th Century, John Bew, Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, and Martyn Frampton
Part Three: Approaches and Methods
9. Organizational and Institutional Approaches: Social Movement Studies Perspectives on Political Violence, Lorenzo Bosi, Donatella della Porta, and Stefan Malthaner
10. Formal Approaches to the Study of Terrorism, Jacob N. Shapiro
11. Sociological and Criminological Explanations of Terrorism, Daren G. Fisher and Laura Dugan
12. Anthropological and Cultural Approaches to the Study of Terrorism, Siniša Malešević
13. Historical Approaches to Terrorism, Brenda J. Lutz
14. Psychological Approaches to the Study of Terrorism, John G. Horgan
15. Critical Approaches to the Study of Terrorism, Charlotte Heath-Kelly
16. Geographical Approaches to the Study of Terrorism, Megan Farrell, Michael Findley, and Joseph Young
Part Four: Causes and Motivations
17. The Causes of Terrorism, Jeff Goodwin
18. Nationalism and Terrorism, Richard English
19. Religion and Terrorism, Jeffry Haynes
20. Ideology and Terrorism, Alia Brahimi
21. Single-Issue Terrorism, Gary Ackerman and Anastasia Kouloganes
Part Five: Terrorism, Political Violence, and Collective Action
22. State Terrorism, Tim Wilson
23. Terrorism, Civil War, and Insurgency, Jessica A. Stanton
24. The Crime-Terror Nexus and its Fallacies, Vanda Felbab-Brown
Part Six: Actors, Strategies, and Modus Operandi
25. Terrorist Organizational Dynamics, Brian Phillips
26. Terrorist Technological Innovation, Evan Perkoski
27. Women and Terrorism, Caron E. Gentry
28. Suicide Terrorism, Rashmi Singh
29. The Strategic Model of Terrorism Revisited, Max Abrahms
Part Seven: Issues and Pedagogical Challenges
30. The Rise and Fall of Terrorism, Erin Miller and Susan Fahey
31. Financing Terrorism, Harold Trinkunas
32. Terrorism and State Sponsorship in World Politics, David B. Carter and Saurabh Pant
33. Teaching about Terrorism: Methodology and Ethics, Gregory D. Miller
34. New Techniques in Teaching Terrorism, David A. Siegel
Part Eight: The Geographical Context of Terrorism
35. Terrorism in Western Europe: A Homegrown Trademark, Luis de la Calle and Ignacio Sanchez-Cuena
36. Terrorism in Latin America, Jennifer S. Holmes
37. Terrorism in the Middle East, Boaz Ganor and Eitan Azani
38. Terrorism in Asia, Brahma Chellaney
39. Terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Recapitulation of Causes and Consequences, Juliet U. Elu and Gregory N. Price
Part Nine: Academic and Policy Perspectives on Countering Terrorism
40. Counterterrorism Strategies, Daniel Byman
41. Terrorism and Counterterrorism: A Policy Perspective, Juliette Bird
42. Counterterrorism and International Law, Andrea Bianchi
43. Torture and the War on Terrorism, Courtenay R. Conrad
44. Academic Research and the Intelligence Community: Some Reflections, Jonathan Evans
Part Ten: Autobiographic Reflections on the Evolution of a Field
45. Constructing the Field of Terrorism, Martha Crenshaw
46. Institutionalizing the Field of Terrorism, Alex P. Schmid
47. Revising the Field of Terrorism, Richard Jackson