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The central focus of this book is a small but vitally important group of movements that constitute a distinct 'fifth wave' of modern terrorism, here called the "New Tribalism". Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism examines a collection of terrorist or insurgent movements whose similarity in tactics, strategic vision and desire to radically reshape their worlds to conform with a Golden Age dream of perfection which is to be achieved through a genocidal or ethnic cleansing process to make way for the emergence of a new, radically perfected tribal utopia in a single generation. These shared strategic and tactical factors allow them to be examined through a comparative lens as a distinct fifth wave of modern terrorism. Structured around the theoretical framework of David Rapoports Four Waves thesis, the book examines anomalous movements that began within a distinct wave of international terrorism, but, following a crisis model, has turned inwards toward radical localism, tribalism and xenophobia. The text is divided between theory and in depth case studies of the Ugandan Lords Resistance Army and the Sudanese Janjaweed. It concludes with a design for further, field-work based researc

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Author

Jeffrey Kaplan, 1954-

Publisher

Routledge NetLibrary, Incorporated [Distributor

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781135157753

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Philosophy