Preface
Chapter 1. A Model of the Turn to Political Violence
Chapter 2. The French Revolution and the Emergence of Modern
Political Violence
Chapter 3. Political Violence from the Restoration to the Paris
Commune
Chapter 4. The Professionalization of Terroristic Violence in
Russia
Chapter 5. Anarchism and the Expansion of Political Violence
Chapter 6. The Specialized Terrorist Organization: The PSR Combat
Unit 1902-1908
Chapter 7. Banditry, the End of a World, and Indiscriminate
Political Violence
Chapter 8. Policy Implications
Appendix. Testing the Social Identity Perspective Model of the Turn
to Political Violence
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Counterterrorism consultant Marc Sageman examines the history and theory of political violence in his comprehensive new book. Seeking patterns across numerous key case studies, Turning to Political Violence offers a paradigm-shifting perspective that yields stark new implications for the ways liberal democracies should respond to terrorism.
Marc Sageman, a forensic psychiatrist, is a government counterterrorism consultant. He is author of Misunderstanding Terrorism, Leaderless Jihad, and Understanding Terror Networks, all of which are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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