Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence

The 'War on Terror' as Terror

Scott Poynting, David Whyte

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Routledge
11 November 2013

Political control & freedoms; Terrorism, armed struggle; Defence strategy, planning & research

Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

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:

To what extent can counter-terror strategies be read as a form of state terror?

How fundamental is state terror to the maintenance of a neo-liberal social order?

What are the features of counter-terrorism that render it so easily reducible to state terror?

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.

Edited by: Scott Poynting, David Whyte
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9780415748094
ISBN 10: 0415748097
Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 11 November 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Counterterrorism as Counterinsurgency in the UK ‘War on Terror’ 2. Shoot-To-Kill Counter-Suicide Terrorism: Anatomy of Undemocratic Policing 3. British Counter-insurgency Practice in Northern Ireland in the 1970s – A Legitimate Response or State Terror? 4. Masters of Terror 5. The Great Game 6. One More Successful War? Tamil Diaspora and Counter-Terrorism after the LTTE 7. ‘No permission to shoot in Gaza is necessary’: Israeli State Terror against Palestinians in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead 8. Untouchable Compradores? Colombian State Narco-Terrorism and the People’s Struggle for National Liberation 9. The Criminalisation of Anti-Colonial Struggle in Puerto Rico 10.‘War on Terror’ and Spanish State Violence Against Basque Political Dissent 11. Indonesian State Terror in Timor-Leste and West Papua 12. Al Qaeda in the West, for the West

Scott Poynting is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-author of, among other books, Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other (Sydney Institute of Criminology, 2004) and Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and Crime (Pluto Press, 2000). David Whyte is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is co-author of Safety Crimes (Willan, 2007), co-editor of Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful (Peter Lang, 2003) and author of State, Crime, Power (Sage, 2009).