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Cyberthreats and the Decline of the Nation-State
This book explores the extraordinary difficulties a nation-state’s law enforcement and military face in attempting to prevent cyber-attacks. In the wake of recent assaults …
Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors
Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and …
Organized Crime and States
In contrast to a globalizing approach to 'transnational organized crime,' this edited volume studies socio-historical environments in which mafia-esque violence has found a fertile …
Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the entire world was introduced to Al Qaeda and its enigmatic leader, Osama bin Laden. But the organization that changed the face of terrorism …
Police and State Crime in the Americas
Building on Chevigny's (1995) classic study, this book seeks to draw renewed attention to the role of police in perpetrating state violence and serving as the tip of the spear of …
Countering Overseas Threats
Constituent Power, Violence, and the State
In Constituent Power, Violence, and the State, Dimitri Vouros examines the question of political violence by placing the thought of Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah …
Muslims and the State in the Post-9/11 West
From the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh to the London transportation bombings, dramatic events of recent years have generated …
State of Disorder
This book examines the theme of privatised violence in different political settings by focusing on the Indonesian case. It argues that the persistence of privatised violence is not …
Surviving the Islamic State
How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did they decide whether to stay or flee, to cooperate or resist? Based on an original …
Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East
A path-breaking history of how the United States superseded Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Middle East, with urgent lessons for the present day We usually assume …
Constituent Power, Violence, and the State
In Constituent Power, Violence, and the State, Dimitri Vouros examines the question of political violence by placing the thought of Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah …