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Understanding Terrorism and Political Violence - The Life Cycle of Birth, Growth, Transformation, and Demise (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Understanding Terrorism and Political Violence - The Life Cycle of Birth, Growth, Transformation, and Demise (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Series: Political Violence
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This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding
human behavior and uses it to analyze the forces shaping the life
cycle of violent political movements. This new edition has been
revised and updated, with three new chapters added. The second
edition takes us deeper inside human motivations, which cause
otherwise rational people to join dissident groups, willing to kill
and be killed. In doing so, the book draws upon research on brain
science, evolutionary biology, and social psychology to help
explain pathological collective behavior. From the motivations of
individual participants, the book turns to the evolution of
terrorist groups by venturing into theories of organizational
development. Together, these theories explain the life cycle - the
birth, growth, transformation from an ideological group to a
criminal syndicate, and demise - of a dissident organization. These
hypotheses are supported with detailed case studies of three
disparate terrorist movements: the nationalists of the IRA, the
communist Naxalites of India, and the religious fundamentalists of
al-Qaeda and ISIS. The book's theory leads to an explanation of the
current global trend of rising tribalism and authoritarianism. The
author warns that this latest wave of xenophobia and
authoritarianism is likely to be exacerbated by climate change and
the consequent rise in sea levels, which could displace millions
from the areas least able to mitigate the effects of global warming
to the countries that can. This book will be essential reading for
students of terrorism studies, and of great interest to students of
social psychology, political science, and sociology.
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