Terrorisms Persistence in South Asia and Pakistan by Muhamma... - 9781041218197

Terrorisms Persistence in South Asia and PakistanAuthor(s): Muhammad Feyyaz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041218197, 978-1041218197\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the paradoxical endurance of terrorism, which continues to exist despite often failing to achieve its central goals. Multifaceted and wide-ranging in scope, the analysis comprehensively surveys a range of global contexts from the last two centuries, where long-term terrorism has prevailed, and systematically identifies various terrorism-sustaining determinants.\n\nUsing South Asia as a case study, the chapters trace the etymology, origins, and study of terrorism within colonial India, during its partition and post-independence period. An in-depth study of pre-post-9/11 persistent terrorism in Pakistan the second-most adversely impacted country globally by terrorism links the phenomenon's broader historical patterns and contemporary causes to explain.