An Intellectual History of Terror : War, Violence and the State.
Investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of terrorist and statist discourses in order to reconstruct the dialogue between them.
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis,
2010
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| Series: | Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 Introduction: To terrorize and to theorize; Part I: Investigative signposts; 2 Killing words: On justifying violence; 3 The violently privileged: On the state; 4 Beyond the line: On frontierlands; Part II: Archive of terrors; 5 Terror as fright: The concept of terror before the French Revolution; 6 Terror as policy: The concept of terror during the French Revolution; 7 Terror as crime: The concept of terror after the French Revolution; Part III: Pirates and terrorists.
- 8 Pirates and barbarians: The Barbary 'axis of piracy' and Western 'anti- terror' campaigns9 Enemy of humanity: The anti- piracy discourse in present- day anti- terrorism; 10 State pirates: Warriors in the maritime frontierland; Part IV: States of terror, states of humanity; 11 All talk and no security: The securitist critique of the liberal democracy's irresponsibility; 12 The humanitarian sovereign: Cosmopolitan warfare in the new global frontierland; Notes; Index.
