Terrorism Research Initiative

Review
Reviewed Work(s): Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad by James Hughes
Review by: Joshua Sinai
Source: Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 13, No. 3 (June 2019), pp. 169-170
Published by: Terrorism Research Initiative
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26681934
Accessed: 31-08-2019 10:28 UTC

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide
range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and
facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at
https://about.jstor.org/terms

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC
BY 3.0). To view a copy of this license, visit
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

Terrorism Research Initiative is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend
access to Perspectives on Terrorism

This content downloaded from 119.152.31.19 on Sat, 31 Aug 2019 10:28:39 UTC
All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 13, Issue 3

Table of Contents: (1) Conflict and Community; (2) The Forms and Nature of Political Violence; (3) The State
and Violence; (4) Democracy and Terrorism; (5) Ethnic and Nationalist Violence and Democracy; (6)
Violence and the Installations of Democracy; (7) Culture, Violence and Democracy; (8) Democracy in Times
of Risk and Uncertainty.

Mathias Thaler, Naming Violence: A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism (Columbia
University Press, 2018), 248 pages, US $ 65.00 [Hardcover], ISBN: 978-0-2311-8814-2.
Table of Contents: (1) Political Theory Between Moralism and Realism; (2) Telling Stories on Art’s Role in
Dispelling Genocide Blindness; (3) How to Do Things with Hypotheticals: Assessing Thought Experiments
About Torture; (4) Genealogy as Critique: Problematizing Definitions of Terrorism; (5) The Conceptual
Tapestry of Political Violence.

W. Kip Viscusi (Ed.), The Risks of Terrorism (Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), 152 pp., US
$ 149.99 [Hardcover], ISBN: 978-1-4020-7734-0. (Published as special issue of the Journal of Risk and
Uncertainty, Vol. 26, Numbers 2/3, March/May 2003).
Table of Contents: Part I: Risk Beliefs: (1) Sacrificing Civil Liberties to Reduce Terrorism Risks; (2) Terrorism
and Probability Neglect; (3) Judged Terror Risk and Proximity to the World Trade Center; Part II: Insurance
Market Effects; (4) Catastrophic Events, Parameter Uncertainty and the Breakdown of Implicit Long-Term
Contracting: The Case of Terrorism Insurance; (5) Insuring September 11th: Markets Recovery and
Transparency; Part III: Policy Responses; (6) The Ecology of Terror Defense; (7) Interdependent Security.

Anna Zizola and Paolo Inghilleri, Women on the Verge of Jihad: The Hidden Pathways Towards
Radicalization (Milan, Italy: Mimesis International, 2018), 120 pp., US $ 14.00 [Paperback], ISBN: 978-8-
8697-7131-6.
Table of Contents: An Introduction: Clear Actions, Hidden Mechanisms; (1) The Active Role of Women in the
Jihad; (2) From the Mind to the Politics: Main Causes of Women Radicalization; (3) Women and Islamist
Online Propaganda; (4) Case Studies of Western Female Jihadists; (5) Women in Counter-Terrorism
Programs; (6) Conclusions.

Terrorist Groups

Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell, Hamas (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2010), 340 pp., US $
79.95 [Hardcover], US $ 36.95 [Paperback], ISBN: 978-0-7456-4296-3.
Table of Contents: Preface; (1) We Deal with Allah Directly; (2) In the Path of al-Qassam; (3) Sowing; (4)
The First Intifada; (5) Oslo and ‘Vain Endeavours’; (6) The Second Intifada; (7) The Qassam Brigades; (8)
The Martyrs Syndrome; (9) Harvesting; (10) Women; (11) A House Divided; (12) Bullet and Ballot; (13)
Hamastan; (14) Inferno.

Country Studies

Chechnya

James Hughes, Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2007), 296 pp., US $ 26.50 [Paperback], ISBN: 978-0-8122-4013-9.

ISSN 2334-3745 169

This content downloaded from 119.152.31.19 on Sat, 31 Aug 2019 10:28:39 UTC
All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms June 2019
PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 13, Issue 3

Table of Contents: Preface; (1) The Causes of Conflict; (2) Russia’s Refederalization and Chechnya’s Seces-
sion; (3) A Secular Nationalist Conflict; (4) Dual Radicalization: The Making of Jihad; (5) Chechnya and the
Meaning of Terrorism; (6) Chechnya and the Study of Conflict; (7) Conclusion.

Great Britain

Darren Kelsey, Media, Myth and Terrorism: A Discourse-Methodological Analysis of the ‘Blitz Spirit’ in
British Newspaper Responses to the July 7th Bombings (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 226 pp.,
US $ 119.95 [Hardcover], US $ 99.99 [Paperback], ISBN: 978-1-1374-1068-9.
Table of Contents: (1) Introduction: The Politics of Remembering and the Myth of the Blitz; (2) Journalism,
Storytelling and Ideology: A Discourse-Mythological Approach; (3) Media and the War on Terror; (4) Statis-
tical Analysis of British Newspapers after the 7 July Bombings; (5) London Responds: Wartime Defiance and
Front-Line Heroism; (6) The FTSE Fights on: Discourses of the City, the Stock Market and the Economy; (7)
Rituals of National Narration: The Symbolic Role of Commemorative Events and the Royal Family; (8) Dis-
courses of International Unity: The ‘Special Relationship’ and Western Foreign Policy; (9) Soft-Touch Justice:
Blaming Human Rights and Multiculturalism; (10) Conclusion: Mythologies of the Past, Present and Future.

Marc Sageman, The London Bombings (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 312 pp.,
US $ 49.95 [Hardcover], ISBN: 978-0-8122-5118-0.
Table of Contents: Introduction; (1) The Emergence of Islamist Communities in Britain; (2) Crevice: The Fate-
ful Decision to Attack Britain; (3) Theseus: The London Bombings; (4) Vivace: The Failed Copycat London
Bombings; (5) Overt: The Transatlantic Airlines Liquid Bombs Plot; (6) Getting the Story Straight.

India

Bidyut Chakrabarty and Rajat Kumar Kujur, Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Left Wing Extrem-
ism in the Twenty-First Century (New York, NY: Routledge, 2012), 264 pp., US $ 165.00 [Hardcover], US $
59.95 [Paperback], ISBN: 978-0-4155-3352-2.
Table of Contents: Introduction; (1) Maoism, Governance and the Red Corridor; (2) Genesis of Maoism in
India; (3) Maoism: The Roadmap for Future India; (4) Growth and Consolidation of Maoism in Orissa; (5)
Maoism in Orissa: Socio-Economic Indicators; (6) The Maoist Organization and State Response; (7) Maoism:
Articulation of an Ideology and its Future; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Left-Wing Extremist (Naxalite) Affected
Areas; Appendix 2: Party Constitution of the Communist Party of India (Maoist); Appendix 3: Programme
and Constitution of the People’s Guerrilla Army; Appendix 4: The Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy
of the Government of Orissa; Appendix 5: CPI (Maoist Central Committee); Appendix 6: Naxal-Influenced
Districts of Orissa.

Durba Ghosh, Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 290 pp., US $ 93.99 [Hardcover], US $ 29.99 [Paperback],
ISBN: 978-1-3166-3738-8.
Table of Contents: Introduction; (1) The Reforms of 1919: Montagu-Chelmsford, the Rowlatt Act, Jails Com-
mission, and the Royal Amnesty; (2) The History of Revolutionary Terrorism Through Autobiography; (3)
After Chauri Chaura: The Revival and Repression of Revolutionary Terrorism; (4) After the Chittagong
Armoury Raid: Revolutionary Terrorism in the 1930s; (5) From Political Prisoner to Security Prisoner; (6)
Revolutionary Autobiographies: Postcolonial Tellings of Nationalist History; Conclusion.

Sarab Jit Singh, Operation Black Thunder: An Eyewitness Account of Terrorism in Punjab (Thousand Oaks,

ISSN 2334-3745 170

This content downloaded from 119.152.31.19 on Sat, 31 Aug 2019 10:28:39 UTC
All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms June 2019