Terrorism and the State: A Critique of Domination Through Fear
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (968 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0275931404 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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It first presents and refutes the two most commonly expressed definitions of terrorism: the absolutist view, a simplistic picture of international deviance on the part of fanatics, and the liberal relativistic view, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Terrorism and the State reframes the terrorism debate. Attention is given to the role of the media in the selective selling of international terrorism. The author suggests that there is presently a double standard of terrorism, one for the state and the other for its opponents. A historical review supports a revisionist position that places the issue in the context of global relations. Both views focus on the definition of behaviors rather than on the real relations of domination and subjugation embodied in the social structure. Neither view can be used as a vehicle when analyzing institutionalized forces of domination through fear. Emphasizing the role of ideological systems in the definition of political violence, this book is theoretical, historical, and critical. Terrorism and the State is a volume on the political economy of terrorism. The remainder of this volume concentrates on historically grounded cases: The Real Nuclear Terrorism; Racial Terrorism: Apartheid in South Africa; Terrornoia and Zonal Revolution: The Case of Libya; Settler Terrorism: Israel and the P.L.O.; Holy Terror: Iran and Irangate; Surrogate Terrorism: The United States and Nicaragua. Having established
PERDUE is formerly Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and the Director of the Contemporary World Studies program at Eastern Washington University. WILLIAM D. A frequent organizer and contributor to UNESCO Non-Governmental Organization conferences on conflict resolution, he is the author of numerous books and articles on democracy, the media, social change and the question of terrorism, including The Ideology of Social P
A useful supplement to The Politics of Terrorism, ed. Perdue apparently seeks to convince the reader to look at the phenomenon of political terrorism from the point of view of the Third World. In Chapter 3, for example, the analysis of the Western media challenges widely shared stereotypes of the Arab Near East. As most of the nine chapters strongly suggest, the definitional problems of terrorism are multifaceted. The author also explains what forces actually constitute and extend terrorism to entire populations. The author also explains what forces actually constitute and extend terrorism to entire populations. The chapters--all accompanied by endnotes--stand on their own as individual essays. by M. Upper-division undergraduates and above."-Cho