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Hamas and Suicide Terrorism - Multi-causal and Multi-level Approaches (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,263
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Hamas and Suicide Terrorism - Multi-causal and Multi-level Approaches (Hardcover): Rashmi Singh

Hamas and Suicide Terrorism - Multi-causal and Multi-level Approaches (Hardcover)

Rashmi Singh

Series: LSE International Studies Series

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This book analyses the root causes of suicide terrorism at both the elite and rank-and- file levels of the Hamas and also explains why this tactic has disappeared in the post-2006 period. This volume adopts a multi-causal, multi-level approach to analyse the use of suicide bombings by Hamas and its individual operatives in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It uses extensive fieldwork and on-the-ground interviews in order to delve beneath the surface and understand why and how suicide operations were adopted as a sustained mechanism of engagement within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Three core factors fuelled Hamas's suicide bombing campaigns. First, Palestinian suicide operations are a complex combination of instrumental and expressive violence adopted by both organisations and individuals to achieve political and/or societal survival, retaliation and competition. In other words, suicide bombings not only serve distinct political and strategic goals for both Hamas and its operatives but they also serve to convey a symbolic message to various audiences, within Israel, the Palestinian territories and around the world. Second, suicide operations perform a crucial role in the formation and consolidation of Palestinian national identity and are also the latest manifestation of the historically entrenched cultural norm of militant heroic martyrdom. Finally, Hamas's use of political Islam also facilitates the articulation, justification and legitimisation of suicide operations as a modern-day jihad against Israel through the means of modern interpretations and fatwas. This approach not only facilitates a much needed, multifaceted, holistic understanding of suicide bombings in this particular region but also yields policy-relevant lessons to address extreme political violence in other parts of the world. This book will be of much interest to students of Hamas, terrorism, Middle East politics and security studies.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: LSE International Studies Series
Release date: 2011
First published: 2011
Authors: Rashmi Singh
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-49804-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General
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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Armed conflict
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle > General
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LSN: 0-415-49804-X
Barcode: 9780415498043

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