LIBROS DEL AUTOR: m l r smith

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  • Terror in the Western Mind
    David Jones / M. L. R. Smith
    Twenty years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, we can now see that the War on Terror profoundly affected Western self-understanding and the secular liberal image it sought to project onto a global canvas at what was widely assumed to be the end of history. The dramatic change in awareness that 9/11 brought about was particularly vivid, this boo...
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    82,65 €

  • Sacred Violence
    David Martin Jones / M.L.R Smith
    Sacred Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to achieve a condition of worldly perfection. In particular, the book focuses upon Islamism as a post modern political religion that considers violence both necessary and purificatory. It also examines the western democratic states’ response to the threat political religion pos...
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    132,62 €

  • The New Counter-insurgency Era in Critical Perspective
    Celeste Ward Gventer / M.L.R Smith
    The notion of counter-insurgency has become a dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This volume brings together international academics and practitioners to evaluate the broader theoretical and historical factors that underpin COIN, providing a critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency thinking. ...
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    47,37 €

  • Sacred Violence
    D. Jones / M. Rainsborough / M.L.R Smith
    Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer world. In particular, the book examines Islamism and the western secular, liberal democratic responses to it. ...
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    133,97 €

  • The New Counter-insurgency Era in Critical Perspective
    Celeste Ward Gventer / M.L.R Smith
    The notion of counter-insurgency has become a dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This volume brings together international academics and practitioners to evaluate the broader theoretical and historical factors that underpin COIN, providing a critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency thinking. ...
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    66,06 €

  • The Strategy of Terrorism
    M.L.R. Smith / Peter R. Neumann
    This is the first book to set out a comprehensive framework by which to understand terrorism as strategy. It contends that even terrorism of the supposedly nihilist variety can be viewed as a bona fide method for distributing means to fulfil the ends of policy, that is, as a strategy. The main purpose of the work is to describe the dynamics of terrorism and evaluate their effe...
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    104,87 €

  • The Strategy of Terrorism
    M.L.R. Smith / Peter R. Neumann
    This is the first book to set out a comprehensive framework by which to understand terrorism as strategy, contending that even terrorism of the supposedly nihilist variety can be viewed as a bona fide method for distributing means to fulfil the ends of policy, that is, as a strategy. ...
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    302,38 €

  • Fighting for Ireland?
    M.L.R. Smith
    The first in-depth account of the evolution of the Irish Republican strategy. This new, updated paperback edition is essential reading for anyone who wants to disentangle the complex issues and motives behind IRA violence. ...
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    94,66 €

  • Fighting for Ireland?
    M.L.R. Smith
    The first in-depth account of the evolution of the Irish Republican strategy. This new, updated paperback edition is essential reading for anyone who wants to disentangle the complex issues and motives behind IRA violence. ...
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    301,62 €