Globalisation and the New Terror: The Asia Pacific DimensionDavid Martin Jones Examines trends in new terror, understood here to be the capacity of sub-state actors to secure religious or politically motivated objectives by violent means. Argues that while the use of violence to achieve political ends is scarcely original, what dist |
Contents
Contemporary Political Violence New Terror in the Global Village | 1 |
Theorising New Terror | 27 |
Uncertain Diagnosis Megalomaniacal HyperTerrorism and an Unending War for the Future? | 29 |
AntiGlobalisationcom The Paradox and the Threat of Contemporary Violent Protest | 40 |
The alQaeda Threat and the International Response | 51 |
Islamic Extremism and Wahhabism | 70 |
Terror Tactics and Asymmetric Strategies New and Old | 77 |
Trends in the Development of Terrorist Bombing | 79 |
Implications for the Asia Pacific | 183 |
Southeast Asia after September 11 | 185 |
The Persistence of Armed Muslim Rebellion in Southeast Asia Implications after September 11 | 207 |
Organised Crime and Terrorism in the Asia Pacific Region The Reality and the Response | 238 |
The Politics of the Southeast Asian Heroin Trade | 255 |
Towards a Conclusion | 267 |
PostSeptember 11 Legislative Responses to Terrorism | 269 |
Australia after September 11 The Intelligence Challenge | 283 |
The Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear CBRN Threat Exaggeration or Apocalypse Soon? | 88 |
The Asymmetric Character of the Evolving Chemical Biological and Nuclear CBN Threat | 119 |
Information Age Terrorism and Warfare | 127 |
The Networking of Terror in the Information Age | 159 |
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