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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF DEMOCRACY AND SECURITY
    LEONARD WEINBERG / ELIZABETH FRANCIS / ELIOT ASSOUDEH
    This handbook explores how democracies around the world seek to balance democratic values with the requirement to protect their citizens from the threat of politically motivated violence. Over the past few decades, the majority of the world’s democracies have had to confront serious security threats, and in many instances these challenges have not come from rival states but fro...

    $1,179.00

  • THE RISE AND FALL OF ITALIAN TERRORISM
    LEONARD WEINBERG / WILLIAM L EUBANK
    Italian democracy may not be as fragile as many of its observers feared or imagined. It has lasted more than twice as long as the Fascist dictatorship that preceded it. Since the end of the Second World War, Italy's citizens and their political leaders have had to overcome massive problems of both state and society that their counterparts in more tranquil parts of Europe have n...

    $1,099.00

  • FASCISM, POPULISM AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
    LEONARD WEINBERG
    Hard right-wing politics is growing in popularity in America, marked by Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 election, and it is worth questioning what this means for the American democratic system. This book seeks to explain the vulnerability of democracies to the appeal of right-wing politics through a contemporary case study of the US, and how democracies are possibly under th...

    $1,039.00

  • THE DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
    RAPOPORT, DAVID C. / WEINBERG, LEONARD
    An incisive analysis of the connections between democracy and violence by acknowledged experts in the field. The connection between the two activities has often been largely ignored because of a widespread reluctance among democrats to consider the possibility that democratic forms perhaps encourage violence. This challenging volume opens up the debate. ...

    $1,279.00

  • THE END OF TERRORISM?
    LEONARD WEINBERG
    This book considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end. Terrorism as a tactic is unlikely to disappear, however virtually all the groups that employed terrorist violence during the 1960s and 1970s have passed from the scene in one way or another. Likewise most of the individuals who embarked on ‘careers’ in terrorism over these same ...

    $1,099.00

  • POLITICAL PARTIES AND TERRORIST GROUPS
    AMI PEDAHZUR / LEONARD WEINBERG / ARIE PERLIGER
    This book is the definitive guide to the topical issue of the relationship between political parties that embrace the democratic process and terrorist groups which eschew the legal and procedural strictures of democracy. The fully revised edition continues to provide the most detailed theoretical and empirical analysis of this controversial issue, highlighting the fluid nature ...

    $1,239.00

  • DEMOCRATIC RESPONSES TO TERRORISM
    LEONARD B. WEINBERG
    Democratic Responses to Terrorism tackles how to protect democratic societies against terrorist violence while, at the same time, making sure that the steps democracies take to protect themselves do no fundamental harm to the rule of law and the rights of citizens. With a foreword by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil, the essays here assess such elements as ...

    $1,099.00

  • RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM AND POLITICAL EXTREMISM
    LEONARD WEINBERG AND AMI PEDAHZUR
    This book explores the relationships between fundamentalist religious belief, political extremism and outbreaks of religiously inspired violence. Is the post-Cold War world increasingly violent and is this violence the result of strident religious understandings of how societies should be organized? ...

    $1,259.00

  • DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM
    LEONARD WEINBERG
    This book examines the relationships between democratic government and political terrorism. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States and many of its allies have declared a ‘war on terrorism’. This struggle has been inspired in part by the belief is that by promoting democracy they will also bring an end to terrorism. Where people enjoy the blessings of liberty, they will natur...

    $999.00

  • THE TRANSFORMATION OF ITALIAN COMMUNISM
    LEONARD WEINBERG
    The end of the cold war and the fall of the Soviet empire have had major consequences for Italian politics. Leonard Weinberg explores some of those consequences, focusing on the transformation of the Italian Communist party from a Leninist to a democratic party. He also discusses the relationship between the end of communism and the unfolding of the entire Italian system.The Tr...

    $1,139.00