As terrorism evolves: media, religion, and governance

Some of the world's most lethal terrorist organizations have become media-centric enterprises, while also hijacking a major world religion, holding large swathes of physical territory, and governing their own virtual states. In this concise and penetrating book, Seib traces how terrorism has p...

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Autor principal: Seib, Philip 1949- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017.
En:Año: 2017
Otras palabras clave:B Terrorism
B Terrorism and mass media
B Terrorism Religious aspects
B Terrorism ; Religious aspects
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9781108419703
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Sumario:Some of the world's most lethal terrorist organizations have become media-centric enterprises, while also hijacking a major world religion, holding large swathes of physical territory, and governing their own virtual states. In this concise and penetrating book, Seib traces how terrorism has proliferated and increased significantly in menace in the relatively brief period between the rise of al-Qaeda and the creation of Islamic State. With close attention to the linkages between media, religion, and violence, the book offers incisive analysis of how organizations such as Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram operate and reflects on how terrorism may continue to evolve. Seib argues that twenty-first-century terrorism is enabled by new media and depends on social networks as connective tissue, while interacting simultaneously with religion and socio-economic and political grievances. As Terrorism Evolves prescribes new measures for counterterrorism efforts, underscores the importance of soft power, and makes a strong case for recognizing that we have entered an era of terrorism of undetermined duration.
Notas:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017)
ISBN:1108303994
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781108303996