Based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as the Irish, British and Americans involved in the Troubles, the focus of this study is on the workings of an organization involved in armed struggle.

In reality, the recent experiences of four different democratic states that have invoked emergency powers show that a positive outcome is just as likely as a negative outcome.".

A serious look at the enemies we face in the twenty-first...

This collection of essays looks at different aspects of conflict and polarization in the north of Ireland during the 20th Century and illustrates that division was never far from the surface in northern society. Contents include: The Belfast Blitz * Ulster Unionist Resistance to the 3rd Home Rule Bill, 1912-1914 * The Irish Language under Old Stormont * Northern Ireland 1932 * The Island of Ireland Peace Park * Education and Community Division in Northern Ireland, 1920-1970 * The 1907 Dock Strike * The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement * Dark Clouds on Southern Horizons * The 1935 Ancaster Street Riots and the Republican Split of January 1970 and Divisions in Sinn Fein since 1986 * Education in a Divided Society * The Twenties' Troubles and the Poppy Day Bombing - Enniskillen 1987 * The Development of Partition, 1900-1921 and Cahir Healy, 1877-1970 * The NILP - A Noble Failure?

In this revealing and fascinating account, the impact of the Provisional IRA's bombing campaign in Britain on both British government policy towards Northern Ireland and the internal politics of the republican movement, are examined in detail. The book highlights the early thinking of the British government and draws on recently released public records from 1939, 1973 and 1974. It makes extensive use of television documentary footage to offer a broader analysis. The book also examines republican rationale behind the campaign, the reasoning behind the use of particular tactics and the thinking behind atrocities such as the Birmingham bombings. Using a range of new evidence, the book highlights the bankruptcy of republican strategic thinking and challenges the notion that successive British governments appeased republicans because of the threat of bombs in London. The analysis of the campaign is placed within the wider context of the ongoing violence in Northern Ireland as well as the history of republican violence in England dating back to the nineteenth century. Ã?Â?Ã?Â?

Product Description: Discussion of armed groups which are considered to include classic insurgents, terrorists, guerrillas, militias, police agencies, criminal organizations, war-lords, privatized military organizations, mercenaries, pirates, drug cartels, apocalyptic religious extremists, orchestrated rioters and mobs, and tribal factions. To study armed groups use of history, political science, anthropology, sociology, theology, and economics are traditional areas of research. The book also delves into matters of ethics, technology, intelligence, education, the law, diplomacy, military science, and even mythology. The book is divided into five sections: History and armed groups, Present context and environment, Religion and inspiration, thinking differently about armed groups, the shpae of things to come.

The Long March examines the recent history and evolving political strategy of Sinn Fin, from the effective birth of the party in 1981 down to the recent Irish General Election.

Global terrorism has become a frightening reality. The situation calls for greater engagement with the public, as the necessary eyes and ears of the global anti-terrorism coalition. However, to be effective the public must be equipped with the knowledge of how, why, and where an individual becomes a terrorist. This is the primary goal of this set, which seeks to answer one central question: What do we currently know about the transformation through which an individual becomes a terrorist?