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Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence - The 'War on Terror' as Terror (Hardcover, New)
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Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence - The 'War on Terror' as Terror (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
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This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power
through a series of case studies of political violence arising from
state counter-terrorism' strategies. The book examines how state
counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror,
in the form of state political violence. It seeks to answer several
key questions: To what extent can counter-terror strategies be read
as a form of state terror? What are the features of
counter-terrorism that render it so easily reducible to state
terror? If state terror is a necessary product of state
counter-terrorism, what does this mean for how we resist the war on
terror'? How fundamental is state terror to the maintenance of a
neo-liberal social order? The chapters analyse this process in a
range of contexts including: Spain; the UK and Northern Ireland;
the US and Colombia; the US and Puerto Rico; Israel and Gaza; the
US and European powers in the Sahara; Indonesia and Timor-Leste and
West Papua; Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam; the UK and immigrants
(especially from suspect communities'), political dissidents and
asylum seekers. Contributors use the case studies to understand
what it means to say that the war on terror' is terror, and explore
this in a psychological warfare sense (the creation of widespread
fears of state violence in order to achieve political, social or
military aims), or in a hegemonic sense (to develop a state of fear
of sub-state terrorists' in order to escalate state political
violence). This book will be of great interest to students of
critical terrorism studies, political violence, war and conflict
studies, sociology, international security and IR.
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