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Terrorism and the Politics of Response

Angharad Closs Stephens Orcid Logo, Nick Vaughan-Williams

Routledge, Critical Terrorism Studies

Swansea University Author: Angharad Closs Stephens Orcid Logo

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This inter-disciplinary edited volume critically examines the dynamics of the War on Terror, focusing on the theme of the politics of response.The book explores both how responses to terrorism - by politicians, authorities and the media - legitimise particular forms of sovereign politics, and how te...

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Published in: Routledge, Critical Terrorism Studies
ISBN: 0415609518 9780415609517
Published: 2008
Online Access: https://www.routledge.com/Terrorism-and-the-Politics-of-Response/Stephens-Vaughan-Williams/p/book/9780415455060
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