Sandra Walklate & Gabe Mythen, Contradictions of Terrorism: Security, Risk and Resilience

Abstract

The book under review entitled Contradictions of Terrorism: Security, Risk and Resilience, co-written by Sandra Walklate and Gabe Mythen, is an attempt to explore and analyse terrorism through the interplay of ―power, inequality and injustice‖ prevalent in modern day societies. Though 9/11 changed the way the world dealt with the phenomenon as it acquired a trans border character the book looks at it in the historical perspective reverting to the violent politics of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the United Kingdom all through the later decades of the last century. Terrorist acts have been experienced by nearly all states much before 9/11 happened. But they were isolated happenings perpetrated by unconnected groups for different causes. The 9/11 incident brought a transnational Islamic extremist, fundamentalist movement to the fore. Terrorism acquired a new character, not just a name, al Qaeda.