Book Cover	1
	Title	4
	Copyright	5
	Contents	6
	Illustrations	8
	Contributors	9
	Foreword	11
	Acknowledgements	14
	Introduction: Terrorism, the state and the study of political terror	16
	1 State terrorism in the social sciences: Theories, methods and concepts	27
	2 Darfur’s dread: Contemporary state terrorism in the Sudan	43
	3 State terrorism and the military in Pakistan	63
	4 Israel’s other terrorism challenge	83
	5 ‘We have no orders to save you’: State terrorism, politics and communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat, 2002	101
	6 The politics of convenient silence in southern Africa: Relocating the terrorism of the state	119
	7 Revenge and terror: The destruction of the Palestinian community in Kuwait	139
	8 Winning hearts and mines: The Bougainville crisis, 1988–90	156
	9 Paramilitarism and state terror in Colombia	178
	10 ‘We are all in Guantánamo’: State terror and the case of Mamdouh Habib	196
	11 From garrison state to garrison planet: State terror, the War on Terror and the rise of a global carceral complex	211
	12 The deterrence logic of state warfare: Israel and the Second Lebanon War, 2006	228
	Conclusion: Contemporary state terrorism – towards a new research agenda	243
	Index	255