The devil you know: Continuing problems with research on terrorism

Research on Terrorism: Trends, Achievements and Failures

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 57-71

  Silke, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84906616647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203500972     Document Type: Chapter

References (10)

1. Colin Robson, Real World Research (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), pp.41-2.
2. See John Horgan, 'Issues in Terrorism Research', The Police Journal, 70 (1997), pp. 193-202.
3. Ariel Merari, 'Academic Research and Government Policy on Terrorism', Terrorism and P olitical Violence, 3/1 (Spring 1991), pp. 88-102.
4. Alex Schmid and Albert Jongman, Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Databases, Theories and Literature (Oxford: North Holland, 1988), p. 1-79.
5. Keith Macdonald and Colin Tipton, 'Using Documents', in Nigel Gilbert (ed.), Researching Social Life (London: Sage, 1993), p. 191.
6. Robert Burns, Introduction to Research Methods (London: Sage, 2000), p. 93.
7. Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and David Nachmias, Research Methods in the Social Sciences, 5th edn (London: Arnold, 1996), p. 147.
8. Andrew Silke, 'The Road Less Travelled: Trends in Terrorism Research 1990-1999', in Terrorism Prevention Branch (ed.), Global Terrorism Survey (Vienna: United Nations, 1999).
9. Avishag Gordon, 'Terrorism Dissertations and the Evolution of a Speciality: An Analysis of Meta-Information', Terrorism and Political Violence, 11/2 (Summer 1999), pp.141-50.
10. Frankfort-Nachmias and Nachimas, Research Methods in Social Sciences, p.10.