This chapter evaluates the development of knowledge claims about insurgent terrorism and
measures them against the standard of how well these claims have advanced the …

Recent years have witnessed increasing academic, media, and political attention to the
threat of far-right terrorism. In this article, I argue that scholarship on this threat has suffered …

This article explores the value of scholarship on state terrorism for the critical study of
terrorist violences. The article begins by identifying four primary contributions of this …

This major new text provides an accessible yet intellectually rigorous introduction to
contemporary Security Studies. It focuses on eight fundamental debates relating to …

The past twenty years have witnessed critical terrorism studies (CTS) become an
increasingly influential body of work. In this article, I offer the first sustained effort to chart …

Although terrorism research has tended toward problem-solving and policy-relevant
analysis (Jarvis 2009a), a number of alternative, critical interventions took place during and …

This paper uses an interesting and but rather neglected theoretical discussion of Karl Marx's
Historical Materialism in order to shed light on the discourse of terrorism that pervades the …

This article explores the endurance of the pervasive framing of “9/11” as a moment of
temporal rupture within the United States. It argues that this has persisted despite the …

Kenya's state discourse on terrorism and counterterrorism securitises Somali refugees and
refugee camps. Using the securitisation theory, a perspective of social constructivism as a …

Few issues have attracted as much discussion in recent years as that of terrorist violence
and how it should be countered. Attacks from 9/11, through to events in Bali, Madrid …