[ecrea] New book "As Terrorism Evolves"

As Terrorism Evolves
Media, Religion, and Governance

Author: Philip Seib, University of Southern California

Date Published: October 2017
isbn: 9781108419703

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/terrorism-evolves-media-religion-and-governance?format=HB&isbn=9781108419703#UKAZ4wgIkiWiLiRQ.97 


https://www.amazon.com/As-Terrorism-Evolves-Religion-Governance-ebook/dp

Some of the world's most lethal terrorist organizations have become 
media-centric enterprises, while also hijacking a major world religion, 
holding large swathes of physical territory, and governing their own 
virtual states. In this concise and penetrating book, Seib traces how 
terrorism has proliferated and increased significantly in menace in the 
relatively brief period between the rise of al-Qaeda and the creation of 
Islamic State. With close attention to the linkages between media, 
religion, and violence, the book offers incisive analysis of how 
organizations such as Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram operate 
and reflects on how terrorism may continue to evolve. Seib argues that 
twenty-first-century terrorism is enabled by new media and depends on 
social networks as connective tissue, while interacting simultaneously 
with religion and socio-economic and political grievances. As Terrorism 
Evolves prescribes new measures for counterterrorism efforts, 
underscores the importance of soft power, and makes a strong case for 
recognizing that we have entered an era of terrorism of undetermined 
duration.

Philip Seib, University of Southern California
Philip Seib is one of the world's leading authorities on the 
intersection of media and foreign policy. A frequent visitor to the 
Middle East, he has examined Arab politics in books such as The Al 
Jazeera Effect (2008) and Real-Time Diplomacy (2012). Seib is Professor 
of Journalism, Public Diplomacy, and International Relations at the 
University of Southern California, and was named International 
Communication Distinguished Scholar by the International Studies 
Association. He is author and editor of more than two dozen books and 
writes frequently for Huffington Post about terrorism and international 
politics. His interest in terrorism was piqued when he found himself 
just 40 miles from Mosul as that city was being seized by Islamic State 
in 2014.

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