Lectura obligada donde se encontrarán innumerables ejemplos prácticos para reflexionar sobre esa forma de violencia que explota el terror que crea en los ciudadanos y pretende tener poder e influencia a través de la publicidad a sus actos sistemáticos de barbarie.

Que es el terrorismo? Donde, cuando y como surgen las organizaciones terroristas? Quienes han militado en ellas y por que? Cuales son las medidas antiterroristas que deben adoptar los gobiernos democraticos? Que problematica subyace a la cooperacion internacional contra dicho fenomeno? Estamos de hecho ante una nueva era del terrorismo? Este libro, escrito por uno de los mas destacados expertos academicos internacionales en la materia, ofrece de manera rigurosa pero al mismo tiempo accesible los elementos analiticos, argumentos interpretativos y ejemplos empiricos necesarios para responder tanto a esos como a otros interrogantes. Sus paginas, en primer lugar, abordan la caracterizacion del terrorismo como forma singular de violencia utilizada en la contienda por el poder. En segundo lugar, investigan los escenarios sociales, regimenes politicos y contextos culturales donde resulta mas verosimil la aparicion del terrorismo contemporaneo. En tercer lugar, exploran los rasgos sociodemograficos, experiencias de socializacion politica y motivaciones individuales propias de quienes han sido militantes de las diversas organizaciones terroristas que hemos conocido en las sociedades industriales avanzadas desde el final de los anos sesenta. En cuarto lugar, discuten el alcance y las limitaciones de cuantas medidas politicas en sentido estricto, ademas de otras propiamente juridicas y policiales, han implementado los gobiernos democraticos con el objetivo de contener el terrorismo. Finalmente, estudian la transnacionalizacion de dicho fenomeno, que las autoridades de algunos paises incluso han utilizado como instrumento de su politica exterior, atendiendo tambien por ello a la problematica de losarreglos bilaterales o multilaterales alcanzados para prevenir y perseguir esa violenc

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'Conceptualising Terrorism' argues that, while there have always been good reasons for striving for a universally agreed definition of terrorism, there are further reasons for doing so in the post-9/11 environment, notwithstanding the formidable challenges that confront such an endeavour.