Terrorism

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Views: How the Assad Regime Helped Create, Support, and Perpetuate ‘ISIS’?

2021-11-18

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ISIS Fighters hold their weapons as they stand on confiscated cigarettes before setting them on fire، Raqqa, Syria, 2 April 2014. Reuters, Stringer.

On 16 November 1986, on the sixteenth anniversary of the so-called Corrective Movement,[1] Syrian president Hafez al-Assad strenuously denied that…

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War on Terror and Human Rights Violations by Security Bureaucracies: A Reading of Some General Features and Israeli Securitocracy

2021-10-27

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Abstract This study proceeds from the thesis that the foundations of democracy and human rights have been eroded by a…

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Critique of Justificatory Tendencies in Counter-terrorism Policies: The Case of Iraq

2021-10-06

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A British Royal Marines soldier stands guards over a Baath Party member, Southeast Basra, Iraq, 26 March 2003. PA Images via Reuters.

Abstract Situated within the field of critical terrorism studies, this paper explores how counterterrorism narratives legitimise terrorism discourse and counterterrorism…