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Autore |
Kaplan Jeffrey <1954-, > |
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Terrorist groups and the new tribalism : terrorism's fifth wave / / Jeffrey Kaplan |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-15776-6 |
1-282-57138-9 |
9786612571381 |
0-203-85752-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Terrorism - Philosophy |
Political crimes and offenses |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I Theory; 1 Terrorism and religious violence; 2 Rapoport's Four Waves theory (revisited and ever- so-slightly revised); 3 The Fifth Wave: The new tribalism?; Part II Praxis; 4 The Lord's Resistance Army; 5 Sudan and the Janjaweed; 6 Conclusion: The Fifth Wave?; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The central focus of this book is a small but vitally important group of movements that constitute a distinct 'fifth wave' of modern terrorism, here called the ""New Tribalism"". Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism examines a collection of terrorist or insurgent movements whose similarity in tactics, strategic vision and desire to radically reshape their worlds to conform with a 'Golden Age' dream of perfection which is to be achieved through a genocidal or ethnic cleansing process to make way for the emergence of a new, radically perfected tribal utopia in a singl |
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