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Inside Greek Terrorism

By: George Kassimeris

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Inside Greek Terrorism

By: George Kassimeris

George Kassimeris explores the complexity of the motivations and emotions of those who have led Greece's network of modern terrorist groups and urban guerrillas.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199333394

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The Barbarization of Warfare

By: George Kassimeris

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The images from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad have been a grim reminder of warfare's undiminished capacity for brutality and indiscriminate excess. What happened in Abu Ghraib has happened before: the World War II, and more recent wars and insurgencies in Algeria, Congo, Angola, Vietnam, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, and many others, all bear witness to the ever-present human capacity to commit barbaric acts if circumstances allow. What drives people to mistreat, humiliate, and torment others? In an age when real time war, violence, and torture are becoming addictive forms of entertainment, it is now more critical than ever to deepen our understanding of the extraordinary distortions of the human psyche and spirit that occur in wartime. Eight distinguished scholars explore, in this first collective effort, the effects of the barbarization of warfare on our cultures and societies. Contributors: Joanna Bourke, Niall Ferguson, Jay Winter, Richard Overy, David Anderson, Hew Strachan, Paul Rogers, Kathleen Taylor, Marilyn Young, Paul Rogers, Anthony Dworkin, Amir Weiner, Mary Habeck, and David Simpson.

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NYU Press

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0814747965

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9780814747964

Inside Greek Terrorism

By: George Kassimeris

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Inside Greek Terrorism

By: George Kassimeris

The long story of Greek terrorism was meant to have ended in the summer of 2002 with the collapse of the country’s premier terrorist organisation and one of Europe’s longest-running gangs, the notorious 17 November group (17N). However, rather than demoralising and emasculating the country’s armed struggle movement, the dismantling of 17N and the imprisonment of its members led to the emergence of new urban guerrilla groups and an upsurge in and intensification of revolutionary violence. Given the sheer longevity of the 17N terrorist experience, George Kassimeris sets out to analyse the life histories of the group’s imprisoned members. Their stories, told through their own words, offer us a clearer picture than we have ever had of the political and ideological environment that provided the foundations upon which revolutionary terrorism took root in the mid-1970s. This book also brings up to date the gritty story of Greek terrorism, by analysing the country’s post-17N generation of urban guerrilla groups, placing their extremism and violence in a broader political and cultural perspective.

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Hurst Publishers

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1849042837

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9781849042833

Europe's Last Red Terrorists

The Revolutionary Organization 17 November

By: George Kassimeris

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Europe's Last Red Terrorists

The Revolutionary Organization 17 November

By: George Kassimeris

Since the 1970s, Europe's last Marxist-Leninist terroriststhe Greek Revolutionary Organization 17 November have waged a violent campaign against US and NATO personnel, Turkish diplomats and members of the Greeks military and business elite. In May 2000 they assassinated a top British diplomat in Athens in a daring daylight attack. Yet no one suspected of belonging to the organization, let alone of being involved in its terror campaign, has ever been arrested. This is the first book to deal with revolutionary terrorism in Greece. Tracing the history of 17 November, Kassimeris demonstrates how it has persevered with a one-dimensional view of a world peopled by heroes and villains, that has precluded the emergence of a coherent ideology. Combining fanatical nationalism, contempt for the existing order, and the cult of violence for its own sake, 17 November has stubbornly refused to accept that its eclectic belief system is incompatible with modern democratic principles. Unlike Italy's Red Brigades or Germany's Red Army Faction, which both assailed "the capitalist state and its agents," 17 November hopes to create an insurrectionary mood that will propel the Greeks into revolutionary political action without disrupting society as a whole. As such, 17 November's terror campaign has been an audacious protest aimed at discrediting and humiliating the Greek establishment and the US government, but one that has never sought to develop widespread revolutionary guerrilla warfare.

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NYU Press

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0814747566

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9780814747568

Playing Politics with Terrorism

A User's Guide

By: George Kassimeris

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Playing Politics with Terrorism

A User's Guide

By: George Kassimeris

Today more than ever, governments are determined to protect the public by rooting out terrorists and bringing them to justice, but in dealing with extremism, governments often violate citizens' individual civil liberties. In their zeal to attack terrorism and preserve domestic security, governments pass laws that violate basic freedoms and privacies and undermine the support of the public. To avoid hysteria and unwise policymaking, both citizens and officials need to rely on fact and sound judgment and remain skeptical of political propaganda. In this collection, scholars demonstrate that the realities of our post-9/11 world are not necessarily new. Many governments, from Putin's Russia and Fujimori's Peru to Italy in the 1970s have at times repressed the very liberty and democratic freedoms terrorists seek to destroy. Essays address the use of terrorist threat to sustain a credible anti-terrorist narrative, sway public opinion, and push through draconian legislation. For the most part, the contributors remain sympathetic to the efforts made by states to protect their citizenry; however, they encourage awareness and vigilance to prevent the wholesale exploitation of the fundamental rights of a democracy.

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0231700008

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9780231700009

Military Ethics

What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: George R. Lucas

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Military Ethics

What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: George R. Lucas

A comprehensive and case-driven account of the core ethical principles of the "Profession of Arms," together with a description of the rigorous ethical demands and moral dilemmas these principles impose upon individuals, both in and beyond combat. A thorough but readable, engaging account addressed both to military personnel and the wider public.

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Oxford University Press

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0199336881

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9780199336883

Greece (1941-1974)

Years of Occupation, Years of Strife, and Years of Exclusion

By: George Kaloudis

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Greece (1941-1974)

Years of Occupation, Years of Strife, and Years of Exclusion

By: George Kaloudis

From 1941 to 1974, Greece experienced foreign occupation, civil war, dominance of government by the Right, and military dictatorship. Those in control and power for much of this period excluded, tormented, and killed many who resisted them or opposed them ideologically.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666938521

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9781666938524

Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century

Moving Beyond Clausewitz

By: George R. Lucas, Jr.

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Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century

Moving Beyond Clausewitz

By: George R. Lucas, Jr.

This book examines the importance of "military ethics" in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy. Clausewitz’s original analysis of war relegated ethics to the side-lines in favor of political realism, interpreting the proper use of military power solely to further the political goals of the state, whatever those may be. This book demonstrates how such single-minded focus no longer suffices to secure the interest of states, for whom the nature of warfare has evolved to favor strategies that hold combatants themselves to the highest moral and professional standards in their conduct of hostilities. Waging war has thus been transformed in a manner that moves beyond Clausewitz’s original conception, rendering political success wholly dependent upon the cultivation and exercise of discerning moral judgment by strategists and combatants in the field. This book utilizes a number of perspectives and case studies to demonstrate how ethics now plays a central role in strategy in modern armed conflict. This book will be of much interest to students of just war, ethics, military strategy, and international relations.

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Routledge

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1351745174

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Europe's Last Red Terrorists

The Revolutionary Organization 17 November

By: George Kassimeris

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Europe's Last Red Terrorists

The Revolutionary Organization 17 November

By: George Kassimeris

This volume focuses on the ideology and operations of Europe's last Marxist-Leninist terrorists, the Greek revolutionary organisation November 17. Tracing the history of November 17, which began in the 1970's, this book demostrates how it has persevered despite never developing widespread revolutionary guerrilla warfare.

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C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

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1850654670

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9781850654674

The Barbarisation of Warfare

By: George Kassimeris

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The Barbarisation of Warfare

By: George Kassimeris

Images from Baghdads now notorious Abu Ghraib prison have come to define the ill-starred occupation of Iraq, but they also remind us of wars undiminished brutality and indiscriminate excess. Yet, what happened in Abu Ghraib took place, sometimes on a huge scale, during World War II and later in Kenya, Algeria, Vietnam, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Chechnya, bearing witness to our capacity to act in barbarous ways if circumstances permit. With original contributions from world-class scholars, this book raises disturbing questions: Can warfare be anything other than barbaric? Are we all human, or are some of us less human than others in wartime? Can torture ever be justified? The Barbarisation of Warfare is a provocative and hard-hitting analysis of the human misery and complex moral dimensions of modern warfare.

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1850657998

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Book's by George Kassimeris

Inside Greek Terrorism

Inside Greek Terrorism

The Barbarization of Warfare

The Barbarization of Warfare

Inside Greek Terrorism

Inside Greek Terrorism

Europe's Last Red Terrorists

Europe's Last Red Terrorists

Playing Politics with Terrorism

Playing Politics with Terrorism

Military Ethics

Military Ethics

Greece (1941-1974)

Greece (1941-1974)

Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century

Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century

Europe's Last Red Terrorists

Europe's Last Red Terrorists

The Barbarisation of Warfare

The Barbarisation of Warfare

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