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" Terrorism and homeland security / "
Jonathan R. White, Grand Valley State University.
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843409
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White, Jonathan Randall.
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Terrorism and homeland security /\ Jonathan R. White, Grand Valley State University.
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Eighth edition.
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Belmont, CA :: Wadsworth Cengage Learning,, [2014]
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xxvi, 501 pages :: illustrations ;; 27 cm
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1285061969
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: 1285062264
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: 9781285061962
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: 9781285062266
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-488) and index.
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pt. 1. Terrorism in historical and social contexts -- 1. Defining terrorism in modern history -- Origins of terrorism in Western history -- Social revolution and the Enlightenment -- The American Revolution, 1775-1783 -- The French Revolution, 1789-1799 -- The Reign of Terror -- Guerrillas and the Spanish Peninsula -- 1848 and the radical democrats -- Socialists -- Anarchists -- Anarchism and Nationalism -- Dynamite and revolution -- Terrorism and revolution in Russia : 1881-1921 -- Czar Nicholas and the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 -- Lenin and Trotsky -- Selective terrorism and the birth of the Irish Republic -- Early Irish Republican Army -- The Easter Rising -- The Black and Tan War (1920-1921) -- Separation and independence -- 2. The social underpinnings of terrorism -- Terrorism as a social process -- Terrorism as a religious process : anthropological and sociological approaches -- Terrorism as practical criminology -- Justifying terrorism : motivation and justification -- Classification systems -- Terrorist profiles -- Multivariate profile -- Radicalization -- Groups in prison -- 3. The organization and financing of terrorism -- Models of terrorism -- Guerrilla warfare and rural terrorism -- Guevara : on guerrilla warfare -- Debray : expanding guerrilla warfare -- Urban terrorism -- Carlos Marighella and the urban model -- An American understanding of insurgency -- The evolution of cells -- Umbrella organizations and modern piracy -- Managing terrorist organizations : group size and length of campaign -- Financing modern terrorism -- Financial information : investigative and intelligence tool -- Illegal funding methods -- Legal methods of raising funds -- Networks and systems -- Hidden transfers -- Hezbollah -- Political economy of terrorism -- Narcoterrorism : link between drugs and terrorism -- Drug violence in Mexico -- 4. Terrorism and the media -- Popular media misconceptions -- Tension between security forces and the media -- Media as a weapon -- News frames and presentations -- The War Drum -- Terrorism and television -- Televised gender stereotypes -- The Internet and terrorism -- Liberal and conservative biases in terrorism reporting -- The contagion effect -- Censorship debates -- 5. Gender roles, tactics, and force multipliers in terrorism -- Gender and terrorism -- Organizational impact on gender roles -- Gender and tactics -- Impact of terrorism on men and women -- Overlooking female terrorists -- Technology -- Cyberterrorism -- WMD : biological agents -- WMD : chemical and radiological weapons -- Nuclear terrorism -- Economic targeting and transnational attacks -- Tourism -- Energy -- Transportation -- Suicide attacks -- Suicide terrorism -- Suicide bombing.
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pt. 2. International terrorism : national and ethnic movements -- 6. Long-term separatist terrorism -- Ethnic and Nationalist separatist movements -- Modern terrorism in Northern Ireland -- The IRA -- Unionist terrorism -- Negotiating a peace settlement in Ireland -- Negotiating with terrorists -- The Basque Nation and liberty -- The Spanish Civil War -- Twentieth-Century Basque Nationalism -- ETA tactics and Spanish death squads -- The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam -- Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers -- Separatist negotiations -- 7. Nationalistic and endemic terrorism -- Post-World War II anticolonial terrorism -- Cyprus 1955-1959 -- The Battle for Algiers 1954-1962 -- The Mau Mau in Kenya 1950-1960 -- The Russian Federation -- Breakaway states and crime -- Chechnya -- Turkey -- The Kurdistan Workers' Party -- China's problems in Xinjiang -- Sikh separatism in India -- Endemic ethnic terror in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Sources of African terrorism -- Oil regions -- 8. Background to the Middle East -- Brief introduction to Islam -- Mohammed -- Muslim community at Medina -- The Shi'ite-Sunni split -- Golden Age of Arabs -- Militant philosophy -- Ibn Taymiyyah -- Abdul Wahhab -- Sayyid Qutb -- Three sources of violence in Mahan's Middle East -- Early Zionist movement in Palestine -- World War I and contradictory promises -- Birth of Israel -- Arab power struggles and Arab-Israeli wars -- Iran -- Persian -- British influence and control -- The 1979 Revolution -- Call to Karbala -- Nuclear terrorism -- 9. Terrorism in Israel and Palestine -- PLO from the Six Day War to the al Aqsa Intifada -- Fatah -- Black September and Munich -- 1982 invasion of Lebanon -- Factionalism in Palestinian terrorism -- Hezbollah -- Hamas and the rise of Sunni religious organizations -- Fatah restructured : the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades -- Controversial counterterrorist policies -- Bulldozing -- Invading Lebanon -- The Wall -- Selective assassination -- Elections and security.
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pt. 3. International terrorism : ideological and religious movements -- 10. Revolutionary and counter revolutionary terrorism -- Modeling revolutionary terrorism : Uruguay's Tupamaros -- Urban philosophy -- Counter revolutionary terrorism -- Tupamaro Organization -- Would-be revolutionaries : FARC, the ELN, and the MeK -- The Mujahedin-e Kahlq -- Maoist revolutionary terrorism -- Peru's Shining Path -- The Maoist Rebellion in Nepal -- Naxalites of India -- The New People's Army -- European revolutionary terrorism -- Decline of revolutionary terrorism -- Immigration, the economy, and a return of reaction and revolution -- Economic crisis and political dissatisfaction -- Death Squads and counter revolutionaries -- 11. Al Qaeda and jihadist networks -- Rise of religious terrorism and the Soviet-Afghan War -- Cold War origins -- The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-1989 -- Bin Laden, Zawahiri, and al Qaeda -- The rise of Osama Bin Laden -- Bin Laden and Abdullah Azzam -- Ayman al Zawahiri and the Path from Egypt -- The Egyptian Islamic group -- Egyptian Islamic jihad -- Declaring war on the United States -- Al Qaeda's operational capabilities -- The Sageman-Hoffman debate -- The role of women -- Virtual war -- Al Qaeda's franchises -- AQAP -- AQIM -- The Horn of Africa and al Shabaab -- Al Qaeda's political theology -- Revolutionary vanguard versus religion -- Pakistan -- The Lashkar-e-Taiba -- The Pakistani Taliban -- Bangladesh -- Thailand -- Indonesia -- The Philippines -- Islam in Southeast Asia.
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pt. 4. Domestic terrorism and homeland security -- 12. Domestic terrorism -- Classifying terrorism in criminal justice -- Anti-government criminal extremism -- Right-wing violence -- Sovereign citizens -- Contemporary right-wing behavior, beliefs, tactics -- Conspiracies and a call to arms -- The Turner Diaries and Hunter -- Resurgent violent right-wing extremism -- Change on the left -- Homegrown violent extremists -- Single-issue criminal extremists -- Ecoterrorism, animal rights, and genetic engineering -- Puerto Rican Nationalism -- Antiabortion violence -- 13. An introduction to homeland security -- Security missions -- Agencies charge with preventing and interdicting terrorism -- The Department of Homeland Security -- The Department of Justice -- The Department of Defense -- The Intelligence community -- State, local, and tribal law enforcement -- Building intelligence systems -- National security and criminal intelligence -- Domestic intelligence networks -- Fusion centers -- Fusion center intelligence -- The New Jersey Intelligence System -- The California Intelligence System -- The NYPD Intelligence System -- U.S. attorneys and JTTFs -- Law enforcement's special role -- Role of symbols and structures -- Perceived weaknesses : 9/11 to the present -- The 9/11 Commission report findings -- The 9/11 Commission report intelligence recommendations -- Congressional review -- Academic research -- Intelligence reform -- 14. Law enforcement and homeland security -- Challenge of bureaucracy -- Control and cooperation -- The Weberian Ideal -- Bureaucracy and preventing terrorism -- Intelligence and bureaucracy -- State, local, and tribal law enforcement bureaucracies -- Border protection -- Policy disputes -- The immigration debate -- Infrastructure protection -- Private versus governmental partnerships -- The Federal mission -- Expanding local roles -- Thinking internationally -- Federal rivalries -- FBI versus locals -- Local control and revenue sources -- Legal bureaucracy -- Border security -- Responding to disasters -- 15. Homeland security and constitutional issues -- Security and liberty -- Human rights and civil liberties -- Civil liberties and Federal power -- The USA Patriot Act of 2001 -- Debate and the 2006 law -- Extending provision in 2011 -- Terrorism and the Constitution -- Executive powers -- Executive power and the Courts -- Civil liberties and police work -- National security and crime -- Militarization and police work -- Detainees and the future -- 16. Security, terrorism, and the future -- Antiterrorist security policy -- Homeland security and foreign policy -- The Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- Swarming and multiple attacks -- Blending criminal and terrorist networks -- Law enforcement and the future -- Total criminal intelligence -- Proteus USA -- Democratic accountability -- Domestic and international terrorism -- Emphasizing antiterrorism.
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Written by acclaimed national terrorism expert Jonathan R. White, Terrorism and Homeland Security is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, balanced, and objective terrorism book available. White provides a theoretical and conceptual framework that enables readers to understand how terrorism arises and how it functions. The book discusses the most sophisticated theories of the world's best terrorist analysts, while still focusing on the domestic and international threat of terrorism and the basic security issues surrounding terrorism today.
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Civil defense-- United States.
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Law enforcement-- United States.
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National security-- United States.
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Terrorism-- United States-- Prevention.
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Civil defense.
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Law enforcement.
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National security.
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Terrorism-- Prevention.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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363.325
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HV6431.W484 2014
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