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A gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland's history, from Charles Townshend. The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country

Charles Townshend, Professor für Internationale Geschichte, diskutiert in seinem Band aktuelle Fragen: Wie lässt sich Terrorismus definieren? Welche Strategien werden mit den verschiedenen Definitionen verfolgt? Wie lange schon gibt es Terrorismus? Was haben Nationalismus und Fundamentalismus mit dem Problem zu tun und wie können sich Demokratien gegenüber dem Terrorismus verhalten? - 1 Das Problem des Terrorismus. 2 Kreuzritter und Verschwörer. 3 Die Herrschaft des Terrors. 4 Revolutionärer Terrorismus. 5 Nationalismus und Terror. 6 Religiöser Terror. 7 Terrorismusbekämpfung und Demokratie

This book charts a path through the outpouring of efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, by asking what makes terrorism different from other forms of political, military action; what makes it effective; and what can be done about it. It unravels complex central questions such as whether terrorists are criminals, whether terrorism is a kind of war, what kind of threat terrorism represents, how far media publicity sustains terrorism, and whether democracy is especially vulnerable to terrorist attack. It examines the historical, ideological, and local roots of terrorist violence, and the success of specific terrorist and anti-terrorist campaigns in the more distant as well as the recent past.