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ForthcomiNg
Conducting Terrorism Field
Research
A Guide
Edited by Adam dolnik, University of Wollongong,
Australia
Series: Contemporary Terrorism Studies
This ’how to’ guide to field research on terrorism
provides detailed insights into the challenges and
obstacles in doing field research on terrorism, as well as
advice on how these can be overcome.
This edited volume offers a collection of articles from
experienced authors representing different risk groups,
disciplines, methodological approaches, regional
specializations, and other context-specific aspects. Each
contributor provides a road-map to their own research,
describing planning and preparation phases, the
formalities involved in getting into conflict zones,
gaining access to sources, managing contacts,
interviewing militants in the field, detailed discussion on
the risks involved, ethical dilemmas, translation issues,
effective interviewing and rapport-building steps, and
other practical aspects of conducting field research. The
text will also help researchers set realistic expectations of
how the process of interviewing militants and secretive
government sources in conflict zones is organized, what
the likely outcomes are, and assist with many other
practical issues such as how to navigate through
challenges posed by government forces unsympathetic
to researchers, how to reduce risk of physical harm
when travelling in conflict zones, how to behave at
hostile checkpoints, how to answer specific questions
militants tend to ask prior and during interviews.
Selected Contents: Introduction Adam Dolnik 1. The Need
for Field Research on Terrorism Adam Dolnik 2. A More
Accessible Population?: Interviewing Former Terrorists John
Horgan 3. Field Research on Counterterrorism: Interviewing
Government Sources Brian Jackson and Lindsey Clutterbuck
4. Interviewing al Qaida, Jason Burke and Peter Bergen
5. The Participant Observer Method Keith Akins and Gerard
Chaliand 6. The Use of Surveys in Field Research on
Terrorism Christine Fair 7. Field Research on Terrorism in
Colombia Michael Kenney 8. Field Research on Terrorism in
Africa Anneli Botha 9. Field Research on Terrorism in
Southeast Asia 10. Researching Terrorism in Pakistan: An
Insider’s Perspective Amir Rana 11. Interviewing Islamist
Militants as a Woman 12. How to Research ’Us’?: A
Terrorists’ Perspective. Conclusions: Researching Terrorism in
the Field: A ’How To’ Guide Adam Dolnik
December 2011: 234 x 156: 240pp
Hb: 978-0-415-60930-2: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-60931-9: £24.99
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New
Explaining Terrorism
Causes, Processes and Consequences
Martha Crenshaw, Stanford University, USA
Series: Political Violence
This volume comprises some of the key essays by
Professor Crenshaw, from 1972 to the present-day, on
the causes, processes and consequences of terrorism .
This selection of her work represents the development of
her thought over time in four areas:
• defining terrorism and identifying its causes
• the different methods used to explain terrorism,
including strategic, organisational and psychological
approaches
• how campaigns of terrorism end
• how governments can effectively contribute to the
ending of terrorism.
This collection of essays by one of the pioneering
thinkers in the field of terrorism studies will be essential
reading for all students of political violence and
terrorism, security studies and IR/politics in general.
Selected Contents: Introduction: Definitions, Approaches,
Trajectories, and Responses Part 1: What and Why?
1. The Concept of Terrorism 2. The Causes of Terrorism
3. ’Old’ vs. ’New’ Terrorism Part 2: Explaining Terrorism:
Organizations, Strategies, and Psychology 4. The
Organizational Approach 5. Subjective Realities 6. The Logic
of Terrorism 7. Psychological Constraints on Instrumental
Reasoning Part 3: Responding to Terrorism 8. Coercive
Diplomacy 9. Strategies and Grand Strategies
10. Counterterrorism Policy and the Political Process
Part 4: How Terrorism Ends 11. How Terrorism Declines
12. Why Terrorism is Rejected or Renounced
October 2010: 234 x 156: 280pp
Hb: 978-0-415-78050-6: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-78051-3: £23.99
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ForthcomiNg
Terror in our Time
911 plus 10
Ken Booth, Aberystwyth University, UK and
Tim dunne, University of Queensland, Australia
The 9/11 terror attacks profoundly altered the way in
which intellectuals, practitioners, and the public thought
about the meaning of security and terrorism. This book
evaluates the impact of ‘international terrorism’ on
global order ten years after 911, addressing a series of
key issues in short accessible essays.
Selected Contents: Preface Part 1: International
Terrorism 1. Terror 2. Risk 3. Islam 4. Afghanistan
5. Pakistan 6. Imperialism 7. Evil Part 2: World Order
8. War 9. America 10. Security 11. Law 12. Public Opinion
13. Responsibility 14. Endings. References
September 2011: 198 x 129: 176pp
Hb: 978-0-415-67830-8: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-67831-5: £14.99
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terrorism
Global Terrorism and
New Media
The Post-Al Qaeda Generation
Philip Seib, University of Southern California, USA
and dana M. Janbek, Lasell College, MA, USA
Series: Media, War and Security
Global Terrorism and New
Media carefully examines the
content of terrorist websites
and extremist television
programming to provide a
comprehensive look at how
terrorist groups use new media
today.
Based partly on a content
analysis of discussion boards
and forums, the authors share
their findings on how terrorism
1.0 is migrating to 2.0 where
the interactive nature of new media is used to build
virtual organization and community. The book pays
particular attention to terrorist media efforts directed at
women and children, which are evidence of the
long-term strategy that some terrorist organizations have
adopted, and the relationship between terrorists’ media
presence and actual terrorist activity. This volume also
looks at the future of terrorism online and analyzes
lessons learned from counterterrorism strategies.
Selected Contents: 1. Communicating Terror 2. High Tech
Terror: Al Qaeda and Beyond 3. Terrorists’ Online Strategies
4. Targeting the Young 5. Women and Terrorism
6. Terrorism’s Online Future 7. Responding to Terrorism
August 2010: 234 x 156: 160pp
Hb: 978-0-415-77961-6: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-77962-3: £23.99
eBook: 978-0-203-84537-0
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The End of Terrorism
Leonard Weinberg, University of Nevada, Reno,
USA
Series: Extremism and Democracy
This book argues that al-Qaida and the various violent
Islamist groups it has inspired are, like their predecessors,
bound to bring their operations to an end. Rather than
discussing the defection or de-radicalization of
individuals the book aims to analyze how terrorist
groups end. It examines the historical record and
analyzes in some detail the various ends of these violent
organizations. Much of the analysis is based on a
massive data collection on terrorism compiled by
researchers at the national security studies center at the
University of Haifa.
As a result, the book provides a unique empirically
informed perspective on the end of terrorism that is a
valuable addition to the currently available in the
literature on the subject.
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Methods 3. Defeat
4. Success 5. Transformation 6. Conclusions
July 2011: 234 x 156: 192pp
Hb: 978-0-415-78117-6: £80.00
Pb: 978-0-415-78118-3: £25.99
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