‘Politics of Violence and Fear in MENA: The Case of Egypt’ explores the state-orchestrated violence in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey justified by vaguely defined terrorist threats. It analyses the “wars on terror” as cases of lengthy securitisation processes that reinforced and legitimised autocratic practices of oppression in each country. Paying particular attention to Egypt’s “war on terror” that began 1981, the book looks into how and with what implications such securitisation processes are upheld throughout lengthy periods of time. Reworking the traditional securitisation theory, this book offers a novel securitisation model (the TER-model) that addresses the questions of securitisation durability and is applicable in non-liberal empirical contexts. The monograph is ideal for graduate students, researchers and policy makers in the fields of political science, International Relations, and Middle Eastern Studies.

This book examines the politics of political violence, truth and reconciliation in the contemporary Arab Middle East. It includes studies of state institutions, civil society and international organizations in Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.

This book represents a concerted attempt to bring the resources of political theory, political science and history to bear on modern terrorism. It provides the general assumptions about man and society which inspire terrorist activity, focusing on the continuity of violence in human affairs.

This work argues that a little-discussed aspect of Arab society and government - the fear that is both used as a weapon by government and felt by the people - has created some of the region's most deep-seated problems and hindered the development and growth of the Arab people. It maintains that collective fear and anxiety play major roles in the continuing political and social disorder of the Middle East. It shows that fear and anxiety are commonplace, and they keep us alert and socially engaged as individuals. Collectively, however, these emotions are dangerous, fuelling the violence at loose in the Middle East at present. With examples drawn from the World Trade Center tragedy and its aftermath, this text explores how fear affects broad political concerns, such as the peace negotiations between the Arabs and Israelis, as well as matters of daily life - whole generations now grow up without a sense of safety, without trust, and without hope that a decent life in the political environment is possible.

Meticulously documented and clearly written, The Politics of Terrorism exposes the stark reality behind the 'War on Terrorism' and reveals a 'War of Terrorism' being fought to maintain U.S. empire. Subjecting the theoretical and rhetorical pretexts used to justify the war on terror to penetrating analysis, the author deconstructs the ideological edifice supporting global interventionism and domestic repression being undertaken by a U.S. military, industrial, national security state seeking to achieve global hegemony for the American Plutocracy. By examining the symbiotic relationship between state and individual terrorism, a clear distinction is made between political violence in the service of repression and armed struggle as a form of resistance to oppression. The author utilizes an analytical framework that allows those who seek to understand the 'terrorist conundrum' to distinguish the politics of domination from the politics of liberation. The Politics of Terrorism offers the reader an opportunity to fully understand U.S. policy in the Middle East and the U.S. government's hostility to 'Islamic Terrorism' by referencing a rich literature of critical theory and historical analysis that lays bare the genuine motivation for U.S. involvement and its cost in lives and treasure.