Western State Terrorism

Western State Terrorism examines the political uses to shich the U.S. and its allies have put the terrorism perpetrated by their official enemies-often small scale terrorism compared to that sponsored by the West. The contributors to this study place such retail terrorism in the context of U.S. supported wholesale violence and offer an analysis fo the ideological goals that have been served by mainstream discussions of terrorism. This timely and controversial study radically questions current ideas and definitions of terrorism.

International terrorism: image and reality / Noam Chomsky "Terrorism" as ideology and cultural industry / Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan The discipline of terrorology / Alexander George The terrorist foundations of recent US foreign policy / Richard Falk American doctrine and counterinsurgent state terror / Michael McClintock Containment and its failure: the British state and the control of conflict in Northern Ireland / Bill Rolston Indonesia: mass extermination and the consolidation of authoritarian power / Carmel Budiardjo The Regan doctrine and the destabilization of southern Africa / Sean Gervasi and Sybil Wong