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‘Terrorism Studies: What We Have Forgotten and What We Now Know’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2018

Caroline Kennedy-Pipe
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Abstract

In our current troubled times, terrorism and the threat of attacks on liberal states preoccupies both policymakers and much of the scholarly community. Four important books are reviewed here. These works represent the evolution of thinking on terrorism over the last three turbulent decades. Revisiting earlier thinking and bringing debates up to date about how to understand and respond to violent threats allows us to ponder what we ‘now know’ and may not know about terrorism and liberal states.

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al-QuaedadronesIRAliberalismradicalizationterrorism

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Government and Opposition , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 356 - 384
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Copyright © The Author(s). Published by Government and Opposition Limited and Cambridge University Press 2018 

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Caroline Kennedy-Pipe is Professor of International Studies and International Security at the University of Loughborough. Contact email: Kennedycaroline@gmail.com.

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