Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence: The 'war on Terror' as TerrorScott Poynting, David Whyte This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power through a series of case studies of political violence arising from state ‘counter-terrorism’ strategies. The book examines how state counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror, in the form of state political violence. It seeks to answer three key questions:
In order to explore these issues, and to reach an understanding of what it means to say that the ‘war on terror’ is terror , the contributing authors draw upon case studies from a range of geographical contexts including the UK and Northern Ireland, the US and Colombia, and Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam. Analysing these case studies from a psychological-warfare and hegemonic perspective, the book also includes two chapters from Noam Chomsky and John Pilger, which provide a global and historical context. This book will be of great interest to students of critical terrorism studies, political violence, war and conflict studies, sociology, international security and IR. |
Contents
Counterterrorism and the terrorist state | 1 |
1 Counterterrorism as counterinsurgency in the UK war on terror | 12 |
Anatomy of undemocratic policing | 33 |
3 British counterinsurgency practice in Northern Ireland in the 1970s a legitimate response or state terror? | 49 |
Some useful truisms | 69 |
5 The great game | 85 |
Tamil diaspora and counterterrorism after the LTTE | 97 |
Israeli state terror against Palestinians in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead | 116 |
Colombian state narcoterrorism and the peoples struggle for national liberation | 139 |
9 The criminalization of anticolonial struggle in Puerto Rico | 156 |
10 The war on terror and Spanish state violence against Basque political dissent | 178 |
11 Indonesian state terror in TimorLeste and West Papua | 197 |
12 Al Qaeda in the West for the West | 215 |
Reconnecting the asymmetries of political violence | 235 |
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