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For centuries international order has been troubled by small wars, insurrections, and revolts--low intensity conflicts

Assassination as a political act has a long history, predating the murder of Julius Caesar and continuing into our own time

J. Bowyer Bell's Beseiged is built on the premise that as long as men have constructed walls, other men have tried to scale them

The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained refl ection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are

The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army

This incisive study of the revolutionary killer combines existing historical evidence with years of personal interviews with terrorists in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. As Bell makes clear, the motives of the actors, and the effectiveness of assassination, vary widely across time and place.

The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. A culmination of twenty-five years of work, it reflects Bell's unique access to the leadership of the Republican movement. His contacts with all involved -- including British politicians, policemen, and arms smugglers -- explain why The Secret Army remains the fun...

Explores the psychological and strategic ecosystems of modern political violence and suggest how America can deal with them. Combines analysis with historical examples drawn from America's involvement with armed struggle in places such as Lebanon and Vietnam, and argues that the conventional, rational approach to military and policy establishment must be tempered with historical understanding and empathy. The author is a professor in the schoo...

Cheating and deception are terms often used but rarely defined. They summon up unpleasant connotations, even those deeply involved with cheating and deception rationalize why they have been driven to it. Particularly for Americans and much of Western civilization, official cheating, government duplicity, cheating as policy, and conscious, contrived deception, are all unacceptable except as a last resort in response to threat of extinction. As ...

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This study is based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as the Irish, British and Americans involved in the Troubles. Not unmindful of the unfolding of history, nor the relevance of events, the focus of this study is on the workings of an organization involved in armed struggle.The book addresses the functioning of a revolutionary movement, not the theory,...

This is an analysis of one of the most prevalent forms of political violence at the end of the millennium. The author has been shot at, kidnapped, expelled and questioned in wars from Central America to Northern Ireland. The book reflects his access to the cultures of political violence.

Discusses the risks and possibilities of human freedom. This book shows how liberation of the religious spirit from trivial, closed, and simplistic systems of thought can only be achieved through the development of a critical language, exercises, and disciplines that open rather than close the mind.

Irish history sounds a long litany of grievance and vengeance--lost battles, escaped earls, and institutionalized injustice. The gun, certainly in this century, has played a prominent part. In The Gun in Politics, J. Bowyer Bell presents the story of one Ireland--the Ireland of the Troubles--and about an approach to understanding political violence. In particular, he examines the Irish Republic Army, the longest-enduring unsuccessful revolutio...

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J. Bowyer Bell takes us back to the cradle of Muslim discontent, revealing how Islamic terror arose along the Nile a century ago amidst the grievances of an Egypt held in bondage by foreign imperialists and local despots.