Environmental and Animal Rights Extremism, Terrorism, and National Security

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Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 253
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

As concerns about human treatment of the environment and animals have increased over the years, so have decentralized and extremist groups related to these causes. Environmental and Animal Rights Extremism, Terrorism, and National Security analyzes the international development of radical movements relating to environmental concerns and animal rights in the context of the threats they pose to national security. In addition to tracing the factors responsible for the rapid growth of these movements over the last 25 years, this text presents countermeasures that governments can deploy to neutralize the risk posed by these threats now and in the future. Bringing to bear new developments such as cyber activity and online activism, Environmental and Animal Rights Extremism, Terrorism, and National Security offers an examination of the direct and indirect violence, lone-wolf terrorism, and leaderless resistance that have characterized these radical wings from their inception. By not only identifying the tactics and organizational structures often employed by these groups, but also addressing future trends toward increased radicalization, Environmental and Animal Rights Extremism, Terrorism, and National Security is an important resource for identifying, anticipating, and mitigating threats posed by such movements.

Describes the psychological, social, and organizational mechanisms responsible for the functioning of the extremist wings of the interconnected environmental and animal rights movements in the context of national security
Identifies the main tactical and organizational ways these movements develop, moving from hierarchical organization to network structures, leaderless resistance, and lone-wolf activities
Covers radical environmental and animal rights groups, including Earth First!, Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, Animal Rights Militia, and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Looks to future trends in radicalization of these movements

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Acknowledgments, Page ix
1 - Introduction, Pages 3-20
2 - Extremism: A Theoretical Perspective, Pages 21-41
3 - From the Compassion Principle to the Conception of Rights: Ideological Development of the Radical Wing of the Animal Rights Movement, Pages 45-57
4 - Animal Rights Movement: Foundation, Development, and Radicalization, Pages 59-74
5 - Violence in Defense of Animal Rights, Pages 75-97
6 - Radical Ecology – Ideological Development of the Radical Wing of the Environmental Movement, Pages 101-114
7 - Environmental Movement: The Origins, Development, and Radicalization, Pages 115-130
8 - Violence in Defense of the Environment, Pages 131-151
9 - Leaderless Resistance and Netwars in the Activities of the Ecological Movement: Extremist Wings, Pages 155-170
10 - “Lone Wolves” Strategy: The Case of Volkert van der Graaf and Theodore Kaczynski, Pages 171-181
11 - New Terrorism: Determinants, Working Methods, and Directions of Development, Pages 185-206
12 - The Future of Ecological Extremism, Pages 207-220
13 - Conclusions, Pages 221-225
References, Pages 227-255
Index, Pages 257-267

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