Perliger American Zealots

Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55209-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare

In American Zealots, Arie Perliger provides a wide-ranging and rigorously researched overview of right-wing domestic terrorism. He analyzes its historical roots, characteristics, tactics, rhetoric, and organization, assessing the current and future trajectory of the use of violence by the far right.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perliger, Arie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. The Challenges of Comprehending and Responding to Domestic Terrorism
2. An Ideological Typology of the Violent Far Right
3. Historical Pillars of the Violent American Far Right
4. Tactics of the American Far Right
5.The Rise and Decline of Far-Right Violence in the United States
6. Perpetrators of Far-Right Violence
7. Contemporary Discourse of the American Far Right
8. The Future of the Violent American Far Right
Appendix: Methodology and Statistical Results
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Arie Perliger is professor and director of the graduate program in security studies at the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. His many publications on political violence include Jewish Terrorism in Israel (Columbia, 2009).