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State of Terror follows Ellen Adams, a novice Secretary of State, who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out...
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2015
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" Drawing on their unusual access to intelligence sources, law enforcement, and groundbreaking research, two of America's leading experts on violent extremism and terrorism explain the genesis, evolution, and implications of today's most barbaric jihadist army, Islamic State--and how we can fight it. Though terrorist groups are a fixture of contemporary politics and warfare, the world has never witnessed the degree of sheer brutality demonstrated...
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Knopf
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2016
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English
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"Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS. With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that...
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The French Revolution and the blood-curdling violence it engendered terrified the ruling and propertied classes of Europe. Unable to grasp how such horrors could have come about, many concluded that it was the result of a devilish conspiracy hatched by Freemasons inspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment with the aim of overthrowing the entire social order, along with the legal and religious principles it stood on. Others traced it back to the Reformation...
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2019
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English
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In June 2015, two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York's North Country, launching the most extensive manhunt in state history. Aided by prison employee Joyce Mitchell, double murderer Richard Matt and cop-killer David Sweat slipped out of their cells, followed a network of tunnels and pipes under the thirty-foot prison wall, and climbed out of a manhole to freedom. For three weeks, the...
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NYU Press
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2014
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English
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Honorable Mention, 2019 Distinguished Book Award, given by the Sex & Gender Section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2019 Marysa Navarro Book Prize, given by the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) A profound reflection on state violence and women's survival In the 1970s and early 80s, military and security forces in Argentina hunted down, tortured, imprisoned, and in many cases, murdered political activists,...
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W. W. Norton & Company
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2017
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English
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A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead. When Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL, many prophesied al-Qaeda's imminent demise. In reality the opposite has occurred. Why? Watching the ArabSpring from his Pakistani safe house, bin Laden had seen an historic opportunity: "The next stage will be the return of the caliphate." In the six years since bin Laden's death, al-Qaeda's affiliates...
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The University of Chicago Press
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2019
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English
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How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept's long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political science, and theology-from Plato to NATO. Introducing the concept of the "fear-terror cluster," Simpson is able to capture the wide range of terms that we have used to express extreme emotional states...
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I.B. Tauris
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2015
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English
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One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression and hardship. With Islamic terrorism in China likely to increase over the next decade, how the Party responds will have global repercussions. 'China's forgotten people' explains why terrorism is on the rise in the world's most powerful one-party state, and what this means for...
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Greenhaven Publishing LLC
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2017
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English
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Although September 11, 2001, marks the day when average Americans first began to grapple with the concept of terrorism in the United States, it wasn't the first terrorist attack on American soil. The history of terrorism and the fight against it in the United States is long and filled with more action and intrigue than a novel or movie. Readers discover the details of this part of American history through comprehensive main text, enlightening sidebars,...
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Gale, Cengage Learning
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2018
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English
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Gale Researcher Guide for: New Terrorism"" and the United States is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Educohack Press
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2025
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English
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"State Terrorism and Dirty Wars" delves into the intertwined histories of state-sponsored violence and repression, focusing on Argentina's notorious Dirty War. We explore the complex dynamics of state terrorism, examining political, social, and historical factors contributing to government-perpetrated atrocities against their citizens. We begin with a comprehensive overview of state terrorism, defining the concept and tracing its evolution throughout...
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Terry Nettle
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2025
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English
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What are the origins of wars, terrorism and state terrorism?Why is humankind so willing to accept the tyranny and absolute rule of an all-powerful emperor, who is treated as the representative of God on earth, or the son of god, since the earliest empires and the earliest human civilizations?Why have there been so much bloodshed and so many devastating wars and massacres since the earliest human civilizations?Why is this terrible tradition continuing...
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Terry Nettle
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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What are terrorism and state terrorism?How different are terrorism, state terrorism, state assassinations, and violent protests?Why is the modern world so beset by terrorism and violent protests?What are the root causes of the many terrorist attacks around the world?The future of the world is in serious jeopardy if terrorism, state terrorism, assassinations, and violent protests become the norm.All nations and all peoples everywhere should be aware...
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Columbia University Press
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2023
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English
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After two decades and trillions of dollars, the United States' fight against terrorism has achieved mixed results. Despite the vast resources and attention expended since 9/11, terrorism has increased in many societies that have been caught up in the war on terror. Why have U.S. policies been unable to stem the tide of violence? Harrison Akins reveals how the war on terror has had the unintended consequence of increasing domestic terrorism in U.S....