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Taylor & Francis Ltd Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence The War on Terror as Terror by Scott Poynting and David Whyte
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. _x000D__x000D_The book examines how state counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror, in the form of state political violence. It seeks to answer three key questions: _x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_To what extent can counter-terror strategies be read as a form of state terror?_x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_How fundamental is state terror to the maintenance of a neo-liberal social order?_x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_What are the features of counter-terrorism that render it so easily reducible to state terror? _x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_In order to explore these issues, and to reach an understanding of what it means to say that the 'war on terror' is terror , the contributing authors draw upon case studies from a range of geographical contexts including the UK and Northern Ireland, the US and Colombia, and Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam. Analysing these case studies from a psychological-warfare and hegemonic perspective, the book also includes two chapters from Noam Chomsky and John Pilger, which provide a global and historical context._x000D__x000D_This book will be of great interest to students of critical terrorism studies, political violence, war and conflict studies, sociology, international security and IR._x000D_show more