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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786151003321

Autore

Singh Rashmi Rajpal

Titolo

Hamas and suicide terrorism : multi-causal and multi-level approaches / / Rashmi Singh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-135-69599-7

0-203-71814-3

1-283-96856-8

1-135-69592-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

LSE international studies

Disciplina

363.325095694

Soggetti

Suicide bombings - Israel

Terrorism - Israel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hamas and Suicide Terrorism Multi-causal and multi-level approaches; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introductory remarks; 2 Rationality, nationalism and political Islam; 3 A brief political history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; 4 Rationality and the convergence of expressive and instrumental violence; 5 Palestinian nationalism, identity and the norm of militant heroic martyrdom; 6 Political Islam and the rhetoric of jihad and martyrdom; 7 Concluding remarks; Appendix A: List of interviews; Appendix B: Suicide bombings conducted by Hamas,1993-2006

GlossaryNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses the root causes of suicide terrorism at both the elite and rank-and- file levels of the Hamas and also explains why this tactic has disappeared in the post-2006 period.This volume adopts a multi-causal, multi-level approach to analyse the use of suicide bombings by Hamas and its individual operatives in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It uses extensive fieldwork and on-the-ground interviews in order to delve beneath the surface and understand why and how suicide operations were adopted as a sustained mechanism of engagement within the Israeli-Palestinian c