Critical Perspectives on Counter-terrorism [Hardcover]

This volume examines the rationale, effectiveness and consequences of counter terrorism practices from a range of perspectives and cases.

The book critically interrogates contemporary counter-terrorism powers from military campaigns and repression through to the prosecution of terrorist suspects, counter-terrorism policing, counter-radicalisation programmes, and the proscription of terrorist organisations. Drawing on a range of timely and important case studies from around the world including the UK, Sri Lanka, Spain, Canada, Australia and the USA, its chapters explore the impacts of counter-terrorism on individuals, communities, and political processes.

The book focuses on three questions of vital importance to any assessment of counter-terrorism. First, what do counter-terrorism strategies seek to achieve? Second, what are the consequences of different counter-terrorism campaigns, and how are these measured? And, third, how and why do changes to counter-terrorism occur?

This volume will be of much interest to students of counter-terrorism, critical terrorism studies, criminology, security studies and IR in general.

Introduction: the ends of counter-terrorism, Lee Jarvis and Michael Lister  1. Theres a good reason they are called al-Qaeda in Iraq. They are al-Qaeda&in&Iraq. The impossibility of a global counterterrorism strategy, or the end of the nation state, Bob de Graaff2. Counter-Terrorism: The Ends of a Secular Ministry, Charlotte Heath-Kelly  3. Spatial and temporal imaginaries in the securitization of terrorism, Kathryn Marie Fisher4. Counter-terrorism as conflict transformation,Laura Zahra McDonald, Basia Spalek, Phillip Daniel Silk, Raquel Da Silva and Zubeda Limbada5. Contemporary Spanish anti-terrorist policies: ancient myths, new approaches, Agata Sl£·