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By Ramon Spaaij

ISBN-10: 9400729804

ISBN-13: 9789400729803

What drives the lone wolf terrorist to dedicate mass violence? What are their ideologies and motivations? How do they plan and perform their assaults, and who do they aim? How can lone wolf terrorism be successfully countered? one of many first in-depth analyses of lone wolf terrorism, this e-book units out to respond to those questions. Drawing on vast foreign facts and qualitative case stories, it examines the worldwide styles in and key gains of lone wolf terrorism during the last 4 a long time. This enticing textual content could be crucial examining for college students and researchers on terrorism and violent clash and provides detailed and helpful insights to these operating to avoid or reduce the results of terrorism and political violence.

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6 and 7. Leaderless resistance of course has been advocated and used by a variety of militant actors, including Christian fundamentalists, jihadists, militant anarchists, animal rights and radical environmental activists [22–24], albeit to varying degrees. Leaderless resistance should therefore not be thought of as merely a strategy of the radical right, even if it developed from within this particular context. For example, in A Declaration of War: Killing People to Save Animals and the Environment (1991) radical animal rights activist ‘‘Screaming Wolf’’ describes the strategy of militant interventionism as a necessary measure for animal liberation and urges ‘‘liberators’’ to work alone or with one or two other tried and true friends.

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