Countering Global Terrorism and Insurgency

Calculating the Risk of State Failure in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-48064-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3309 g

Reihe: New Security Challenges

Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state failure. Using case studies of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, she develops a better understanding of the underlying causes and conditions necessary for terrorism and insurgency to occur.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Underhill, N.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Understanding Terrorism, Insurgency and State Failure 2. Assessing the Connections Between State Failure, Terrorism and Insurgency 3. Afghanistan: State Failure and Insurgency in Context Part 1 4. Afghanistan: State Failure and Insurgency in Context Part 2 5. Pakistan: State Failure and Insurgency in Context Part 1 6. Pakistan: State Failure and Insurgency in Context Part 2 7. Iraq: Pakistan: State Failure and Insurgency in Context Part 1 8. Iraq: Pakistan: State Failure and Insurgency in Context Part 2 9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Natasha Underhill is a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK where she is dedicated to researching in the areas of terrorism, international relations, state failure and the Middle East. She received her PhD from University College Cork, Ireland.