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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Conflict and Community -- 2 The Forms and Nature of Political Violence -- 3 The State and Violence -- 4 Democracy and Terrorism -- 5 Ethnic and Nationalist Violence and Democracy -- 6 Violence and the Installation of Democracy -- 7 Culture, Violence and Democracy -- 8 Democracy in Times of Risk and Uncertainty -- Bibliography -- Index

Gandhi and Nehru helped create a myth of nonviolence in ancient India that obscures a troubled, complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice, 600 BCE to 600 CE.

Introduction -- Systemic violence -- Institutional violence -- Crowds and group violence -- Conspiracy and the contemplation of crime -- Armed struggle and civil war -- Random killing and martyrdom -- Chaotic murder -- Belligerence as sexual violence -- Numinous terror -- Violence and social change -- Conclusion.

Looking at contemporary issues such as drone warfare, state violence, gender and political violence, cyberterrorism, lone-wolf terrorism, and de-radicalization, this book draws on the expertise of members of the Terrorism and Political Violence Association network to provide readers with a fascinating introduction to the area

"This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political violence within their full transnational and comparative contexts and within broader trends in European history from the beginning of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth-century, through the two world wars, to the Yugoslav Wars and the rise of fundamentalist terrorism. The book spans a 'greater Europe' stretching from Ireland and Iberia to the Baltic, the Caucasus, Turkey and the southern shores of the Mediterranean. It sheds new light on the extent to which political violence in twentieth-century Europe was inseparable from the generation of new forms of state power and their projection into other societies, be they distant territories of imperial conquest or ones much closer to home"--

"Covers" -- "Guest editorial" -- "Beyond the crime-terror nexus: socio-economic status, violent crimes and terrorism" -- "Preventing successful assassination attacks by terrorists: an environmental criminology approach" -- "Understanding modern terror andi nsurgency through the lens of street gangs: ISIS as a case study" -- "The study of terrorist leadership: where do we go from here?" -- "Splitting to survive: understanding terrorist group fragmentation