Discourses and practices of terrorism : interrogating terror / edited by Bob Brecher, Mark Devenney and Aaron Winter.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [178]-188) and index.

Introduction: Philosophy, Politics, Terror / Bob Brecher and Mark Devenney -- 2. Rediscovering the Individual in the "War on Terror": a Virtue and Liberal Approach / Heather Widdows -- 3. Is there a Justifiable Shoot-to-Kill Policy?/ Shahrar Ali -- 4. Torture and the Demise of the Justiciable Standard of Enlightened Government: A US Perspective / Don Wallace and Akis Kalaitzidis -- 5. Asylum and the Discourse of Terror: the European "Security state"/ Fran Cetti -- 6. Feeling Persecuted? The Definitive Role of Paranoid Anxiety in the Constitution of "War on Terror" Television / Hugh Ortega Breton -- 7. Fundamentalist Foundations of Terrorist Practice: the Political Logic of Life-Sacrifice / Jeff Noonan -- 8. Specificities, Complexities, Histories: Algerian Politics and George Bush{u2019}s USA-led "War on Terror"/ Martin Evans -- 9. Ignatieff, Ireland and the Lesser Evil: Some Problems with the Lessons / Learnt Mark McGovern -- 10. American Terror: from Oklahoma City to 9/11 and After / Aaron Winter.

"The approach of this book is in direct contrast with those that either view terrorism simplistically, as a clear reality threatening democratic society and thus requiring certain sorts of response, or argue, equally simplistically, that the invocation of terror is merely the ideological veil for continued capitalist exploitation...."