By Max Taylor,Jason Roach,Ken Pease
ISBN-10: 1138774588
ISBN-13: 9781138774582
ISBN-10: 1138928763
ISBN-13: 9781138928763
This e-book explores the evolutionary context of terrorism and political violence.
While evolutionary pondering has come to permeate either organic and social-science theorising, it has no longer but been utilized systematically to the parts of terrorism and political violence. This quantity seeks to do that for the 1st time. It offers a set of essays on evolutionary psychology and terrorism, which motivate the reader to technique terrorism from a non-traditional standpoint, by way of constructing new techniques to realizing it and people who dedicate such acts of violence. The ebook identifies evolutionary proposal as heuristically vital within the figuring out of terrorism, explores the foremost conceptual issues, and offers an evolutionary (and cross-species) figuring out of the community-wide results of terrorist assaults. The members deliver ahead cutting edge principles and ideas to help the practitioner, analyst and educational to higher comprehend and reply to the specter of terrorism. In doing so this e-book demanding situations latest assumptions approximately terrorism and those that perform such acts, as a way to flow the talk into new components characterised by means of an emphasis on highbrow caliber and rigour, an interdisciplinary method, and a drawing jointly of concept and perform. The goal is to supply a enough dialogue to let the reader to either comprehend the relevance of evolutionary pondering to terrorism and political violence, and to understand the sensible implications of conceptualising difficulties during this way.
This ebook may be of a lot curiosity to scholars of terrorism and political violence, psychology, criminology and defense reports.
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