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8. Existential terrorism: civil society and its enemies

Author

Bendle, Mervyn F.

Subjects
Civil society -- Safety and security measures, Terrorism -- Control, Islam -- Analysis, Islam -- Australia, History, Political science, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

This paper explores the attitude of contemporary terrorism towards civil society, the intermediate realm between the family and the state that accommodates the free play of economic and cultural forces and individual and group interests. Terrorism now targets not only people and institutions that operate within civil society but civil society itself, i.e., terrorism increasingly targets the very possibility of an autonomous realm of everyday life. This tendency is found in the Islamism of Al-Qaeda, but also in any group that adheres to the 'Augustinian paradigm' of civil society that arose in the West and dominates radical ideologies. An exploration of this situation illuminates both the nature and tactics of contemporary terrorism and the role of civil society itself.

Published
2006

9. Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism

Author

Bendle, Mervyn F.

Subjects
Political science, Social sciences
Abstract

TERROR: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism edited by Michael T. Davis and Brett Bowden (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2008) Paperback: 408 pages Rec. price: $45.00 'Know one's enemy' applies to [...]

Published
2008

10. How to be a useful idiot: Saudi funding in Australia--part II

Author

Bendle, Mervyn F.

Subjects
Entrepreneurship, Universities and colleges -- Australia, Political science, Social sciences
Abstract

This article complements an earlier paper that discussed the implications for Australia of the availability of massive funding, largely secret, from Saudi Arabia and related fundamentalist Islamic regimes. (1) It [...]

Published
2008

11. Australia's nightmare: bushfire jihad and pyroterrorism

Author

Bendle, Mervyn F.

Subjects
Political science, Social sciences
Abstract

Victoria's tragic Black Saturday bush-fires persisted through most of February 2009 in the face of courageous, sustained, and selfless efforts by thousands of firefighters and other personnel to bring them [...]

Published
2008

12. Global jihad and the evolution of terrorist-training doctrines

Author

Bendle, Mervyn F.

Subjects
Deterrence (Strategy) -- Training, Asymmetric warfare -- Training, Terrorism -- Training, Flexible response (Strategy) -- Training, Political science, Social sciences
Abstract

The terrorist attacks in Mumbai occurred just two months after the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad was devastated by a huge truck bomb, and trials of terrorists in Britain and Australia [...]

Published
2008

13. Secret Saudi funding of radical Islamic groups in Australia

Author

Bendle, Mervyn F.

Subjects
Australia -- Political aspects -- Religious aspects -- Military aspects, Islamic militants -- Finance -- Military aspects -- Political aspects -- Religious aspects, Company financing, Political science, Social sciences
Abstract

Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it has become clear that there has been a seismic shift in the structure of global Islam, and from this situation is emerging an [...]

Published
2007

14. Terrorism and the new left in the 'Sixties

Author

Bendle, Mervyn F.

Subjects
United States -- Political aspects -- Military aspects -- History, New Left -- Analysis -- Military aspects -- Forecasts and trends -- Political aspects -- 1960s (Decade) AD, Terrorism -- Forecasts and trends -- Analysis -- Political aspects -- Military aspects -- 1960s (Decade) AD, Liberalism -- Forecasts and trends -- Analysis -- Political aspects -- Military aspects -- 1960s (Decade) AD, Market trend/market analysis, Political science, Social sciences
Abstract

This article explores the convergence of militant Islamist ideology with the radical ideology of the New Left that emerged in the 'Sixties. In particular, it seeks to explain the contemporary [...]

Published
2006

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