Binding: Paperback
Description: This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and uses it to analyze the forces shaping the life cycle of violent political movements. This new edition has been revised and updated with three new chapters added. The second edition takes us deeper inside human motivations which cause otherwise rational people to join dissident groups willing to kill and be killed. In doing so the book draws upon research on brain science evolutionary biology and social psychology to help explain pathological collective behavior. From the motivations of individual participants the book turns to the evolution of terrorist groups by venturing into theories of organizational development. Together these theories explain the life cycle the birth growth transformation from an ideological group to a criminal syndicate and demise of a dissident organization. These hypotheses are supported with detailed case studies of three disparate terrorist movements: the nationalists of the IR a the communist Naxalites of India and the religious fundamentalists of al - Qaeda and ISIS. The book's theory leads to an explanation of the current global trend of rising tribalism and authoritarianism. The author warns that this latest wave of xenophobia and authoritarianism is likely to be exacerbated by climate change and the consequent rise in sea levels which could displace millions from the areas least able to mitigate the effects of global warming to the countries that can. This book will be essential reading for students of terrorism studies and of great interest to students of social psychology political science and sociology.
Title: Understanding Terrorism And Political Violence The Life Cycle Of Birth Growth Transformation And Demise
Author(s): Gupta Dipak K.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367277123
Pages: 298 Pages, 6 Tables, Black And White; 16 Line Drawings, Black And White; 16 Illustrations, Black And
Publication Date: 9/23/2020
Series: Political Violence
Category: Terrorism, Armed Struggle