Date: 2013
Type: Book
Countering terrorism in Britain and France : institutions, norms and the shadow of the past
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
FOLEY, Frank, Countering terrorism in Britain and France : institutions, norms and the shadow of the past, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/27154
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Though Britain and France have faced a similar threat from Islamist terrorism in the years following September 11 2001, they have often responded in different ways to the challenges it posed. This groundbreaking work offers the first in-depth comparative analysis of counterterrorist policies and operations in these two leading liberal democracies. Challenging the widely held view that the nature of a state's counterterrorist policies depends on the threat it is facing, Foley suggests that such an argument fails to explain why France has mounted more invasive police and intelligence operations against Islamist terrorism than Britain and created a more draconian anti-terrorist legal regime. Drawing on institutional and constructivist theories, he develops a novel theoretical framework that puts counterterrorism in its organisational, institutional and broader societal context. With particular appeal to students and specialists of International Relations and Security Studies, this book will engage readers in the central debates surrounding anti-terrorist policy.
Table of Contents:
-- List of figures ix
-- Acknowledgements xi
-- Introduction 1 (14)
-- 1 Terrorist campaigns and threat perceptions 15 (36)
-- 2 Legacies of history: norms, institutions and routines 51 (26)
-- 3 Co-ordinating counterterrorism: intelligence, police and prosecution 77 (99)
-- 4 Justice for suspected terrorists? 176 (68)
-- 5 Operations: tackling Islamist terrorism and its supporters 244 (72)
-- Conclusion 316 (13)
-- Appendix: List of interviews 329 (4)
-- Index 333
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/27154
ISBN: 9781107029699
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/10438
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2008
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