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Evolutionary Psychology and Terrorism (Paperback)
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Evolutionary Psychology and Terrorism (Paperback)
Series: Political Violence
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This book explores the evolutionary context of terrorism and
political violence. While evolutionary thinking has come to
permeate both biological and social-science theorising, it has not
yet been applied systematically to the areas of terrorism and
political violence. This volume seeks to do this for the first
time. It presents a collection of essays on evolutionary psychology
and terrorism, which encourage the reader to approach terrorism
from a non-traditional perspective, by developing new approaches to
understanding it and those who commit such acts of violence. The
book identifies evolutionary thought as heuristically important in
the understanding of terrorism, explores the key conceptual themes,
and provides an evolutionary (and cross-species) understanding of
the community-wide effects of terrorist attacks. The contributors
bring forward innovative ideas and concepts to assist the
practitioner, analyst and academic to better understand and respond
to the threat of terrorism. In doing so this book challenges
existing assumptions about terrorism and those who carry out such
acts, in order to move the debate into new areas characterized by
an emphasis on intellectual quality and rigour, an
interdisciplinary approach, and a drawing together of theory and
practice. The intention is to provide a sufficient discussion to
enable the reader to both understand the relevance of evolutionary
thinking to terrorism and political violence, and to appreciate the
practical implications of conceptualising problems in this way.
This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and
political violence, psychology, criminology and security studies.
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