Terrorist groups and the new tribalism : terrorism's fifth wave / / Jeffrey Kaplan

• Autore: Kaplan Jeffrey <1954-, >
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.625; 363.325
• Soggetto topico: Terrorism - Philosophy; Political crimes and offenses
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Terrorist groups and the new tribalism
• ISBN: 1-135-15776-6; 1-282-57138-9; 9786612571381; 0-203-85752-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459369803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Political Violence