Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence

The 'War on Terror' as Terror

Scott Poynting, David Whyte

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Routledge
17 May 2012

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 several key questions: To what extent can counter-terror strategies be read as a form of state terror? What are the features of counter-terrorism that render it so easily reducible to state terror? If state terror is a necessary product of state counter-terrorism, what does this mean for how we resist the 'war on terror'? How fundamental is state terror to the maintenance of a neo-liberal social order?

The chapters analyse this process in a range of contexts including: Spain; the UK and Northern Ireland; the US and Colombia; the US and Puerto Rico; Israel and Gaza; the US and European powers in the Sahara; Indonesia and Timor-Leste and West Papua; Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam; the UK and immigrants (especially from 'suspect communities'), political dissidents and asylum seekers. Contributors use the case studies to understand what it means to say that the 'war on terror' is terror, and explore this in a psychological warfare sense (the creation of widespread fears of state violence in order to achieve political, social or military aims), or in a hegemonic sense (to develop a state of fear of sub-state 'terrorists' in order to escalate state political violence). 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: 20mm
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9780415607209
ISBN 10: 0415607205
Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 17 May 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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