Beschreibung:
Marc Sageman
Counterterrorism consultant Marc Sageman examines the history and theory of political violence in his comprehensive new book. Seeking patterns across numerous key case studies, Turning to Political Violence offers a paradigm-shifting perspective that yields stark new implications for the ways liberal democracies should respond to terrorism.
PrefaceChapter 1. A Model of the Turn to Political ViolenceChapter 2. The French Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Political ViolenceChapter 3. Political Violence from the Restoration to the Paris CommuneChapter 4. The Professionalization of Terroristic Violence in RussiaChapter 5. Anarchism and the Expansion of Political ViolenceChapter 6. The Specialized Terrorist Organization: The PSR Combat Unit 1902-1908Chapter 7. Banditry, the End of a World, and Indiscriminate Political ViolenceChapter 8. Policy ImplicationsAppendix. Testing the Social Identity Perspective Model of the Turn to Political ViolenceNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments