Evolving Narratives of Terrorism

The Red Brigades' Evolution in Their Own Voice
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-27932-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Political Violence

This book advances a transdisciplinary framework for analysing terrorist organisations through their own narratives, with a focus on the evolution of the Italian Red Brigades.

The work adapts four foundational questions about behaviour, drawn from the work of ethologist Niko Tinbergen to the group level, treating the Red Brigades as an evolving collective entity and their own texts as primary evidence. Drawing on a large Italian-language corpus – Communiqués, manifestos, prison writings, court rulings, and interviews with former members —the book introduces the vector of evolutionary change to identify the moments that permanently redirected the group’s trajectory, showing how early strategic choices locked the Red Brigades into patterns they could not escape and challenging the assumption that terrorist organisations can freely reinvent themselves. Designed to be broadly applicable, this framework can be used for both historical cases and ongoing assessments where narrative data are abundant online. By bringing evolutionary reasoning into dialogue with narrative analysis, the book offers new insights into how terrorist organisations develop, stabilise, ossify, and sometimes transform themselves.

This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism studies, criminology, Italian politics and International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galimi, Domenico

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Model Chapter 3: Origins and Organic Evolution of the Red Brigades Chapter 4: The Red Brigades’ Modus Operandi and Code Chapter 5: The Red Brigades’ Final Purposes Chapter 6: The Ideology Sustaining the Red Brigades Chapter 7: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Domenico Galimi is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and Visiting Lecturer at Regent’s University London, UK. He is a HEA Fellow, a chartered criminologist of ANCRIM, and a qualified lawyer.