Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization: From Christopher Columbus to Osama Bin Laden - Paperback

by Asafa Jalata (Author)

Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization considers terrorism as an aspect of the capitalist world system for almost five centuries. Jalata's research reveals that terrorism can emerge from above as state terrorism and below as subversive organizations or groups.

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"Asafa Jalata's book offers a complex definition of terrorism through a global historical analysis of the spread of colonialism and capitalism involving the West and the Rest. Rejecting a narrow Western construction of terrorism, Jalata focuses on acts of terrorism, and policies supporting them, committed by state actors from above as well as resistance from below. Jalata examines terrorism from above in the colonial Americas, Australia, and Africa. These analyses not only lay the groundwork for critiquing the growth of al-Qaeda and the spread of multi-national terrorism in the 21^st century, but they also make a case for fundamental humanitarian policy changes to promote peace and empowerment."

--Wanda Rushing, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of Memphis, USA, and author of The Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South.

Author Biography

Asafa Jalata is Professor of Sociology and Global and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.