Sacred violence : political religion in a secular age / David Martin Jones, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Queensland, Australia and M.L.R. Smith, Professor of Strategic Theory, King's College London, UK.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-259) and index.
Contents:
History restarted : jihadist terror and liberal democracy -- The politics of homeland insecurity : the cybercaliphate and the unbearable lightness of being British -- The commentariat and discourse failure : language and atrocity in cool Britannia -- Counter insurgency (COIN) : the post-9/11 military revolution and its consequences -- Non-western terror and counterinsurgency : the case of Jemaah Islamiah -- Beyond belief : Islamist strategic thinking and international relations theory -- Political fiction and jihad : the novel response to 9/11 -- Conclusion : terror, the polis and political religion.
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