Understanding terrorism and political violence the life cycle of birth, growth, transformation, and demise /

• Main Author: Gupta, Dipak K.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
• Series: Cass series on political violence.
• Subjects: Terrorism > Social aspects.; Political violence > Social aspects.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Terrorism. > Political Freedom & Security; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

This book explains the lifecycle of terrorist organizations from an innovative theoretical perspective, combining economics with social psychology. It offers a new approach to understanding human behaviour, and uses this to analyze the forces shaping the lifecycle of violent political movements.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Martha Crenshaw.
• 2.
• P.11.
• Theories of the origins of movements
• 3.
• P.32.
• Selfish altruist: modeling the mind of a terrorist
• 4.
• P.64.
• The dynamics of dissent: a theoretical perspective
• 5.
• P.102.
• Faith, nationalism, and class warfare: the birth of a movement
• 6.
• P.123.
• Growth of a movement: accounting for rapid escalation of violence
• 7.
• P.146.
• A marriage made in hell? Terrorism and organized crime
• 8.
• P.161.
• Demise of dissent: the endgame of terrorism
• 9.
• P.181.
• Terrorism's trap: a winnable war?
• App. A.
• P.207.
• Trade-off between interests of the individual and the collective: an expanded assumption of rationality
• App. B.
• P.211.
• Terrorism and organized crime: a formal model