What's wrong with terrorism / Robert E. Goodin.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2006Description: xi, 246 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0745634974
- 9780745634975
- 0745634982
- 9780745634982
- 303.62501 22
- HV6431 .G635 2006
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 303.62501 GOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A419010B |
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303.625 VIO Violence and terrorism 98/99. | 303.625 WEB Terror, terrorism, and the human condition / | 303.625 WOR Worlds in collision : terror and the future of global order / | 303.62501 GOO What's wrong with terrorism / | 303.62501 TER Terrorism : the philosophical issues / | 303.625014 NAR Narrative landmines : rumors, Islamist extremism, and the struggle for strategic influence / | 303.62503 THA Dictionary of terrorism / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-237) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Terrorism as unjust war : killing innocent civilians -- 3. Terrorism as a political tactic : intending to instil fear -- 4. States can be terrorists, too -- 5. Warnings can be terroristic, too : profiting politically from fear -- 6. Warnings bound to be misheard -- 7. Terrorizing democracy -- 8. Conclusions.
"Some see terrorism is an ideology, others claim it is a deep-seated social or psychological failing, others that it is a form of fighting unfairly judged by just-war standards. In this provocative new book, Robert Goodin puts forward the view that terrorism is, in fact, a deliberate tactic of frightening people for socio-political gain. Fear affects people's ability to reason clearly and undermines their capacity for autonomous self-government. In this way, Goodin contends that terror is not only the weapon of organizations such as al-Qaeda; is also benefits democratic politicians who profit from the climate of insecurity induced by terrorist threats and violence. Political figures conducting a campaign of fear as part of their war on terrorism may therefore be committing wrongs akin to those of terrorists themselves. This, Goodin argues, is what is distinctively wrong with terrorism in the contemporary world."--BOOK JACKET.
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