Terrorism's Persistence in South Asia and Pakistan

Muhammad Feyyaz

ISBN 10: 1041218192 / ISBN 13: 9781041218197

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr 2026, 2026

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Neuware - This book explores the paradoxical endurance of terrorism, which continues to exist despite often failing to achieve its central goals. Multifaceted and wide-ranging in scope, the analysis comprehensively surveys a range of global contexts from the last two centuries, where long-term terrorism has prevailed, and systematically identifies various terrorism-sustaining determinants.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Terrorism's Persistence in South Asia and Pakistan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr 2026
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1041218192
• ISBN 13: 9781041218197
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 13D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 468 grams

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Synopsis

This book explores the paradoxical endurance of terrorism, which continues to exist despite often failing to achieve its central goals. Multifaceted and wide-ranging in scope, the analysis comprehensively surveys a range of global contexts from the last two centuries, where long-term terrorism has prevailed, and systematically identifies various terrorism-sustaining determinants.

Using South Asia as a case study, the chapters trace the etymology, origins, and study of terrorism within colonial India, during its partition and post-independence period. An in-depth study of pre-post-9/11 persistent terrorism in Pakistan – the second-most adversely impacted country globally by terrorism – links the phenomenon's broader historical patterns and contemporary causes to explain terrorism's contentious efficacy contextually and theoretically and to resolve the persistence-inefficacy paradox. This book makes two significant contributions: it fills a critical, empirical, methodological, and theoretical gap in understanding the paradoxical persistence of terrorism, while also underscoring the need for specific recognition of this violence genre as a distinct sub-phenomenon warranting dedicated study.

Offering a fresh perspective from a scholar based in the Global South, the book will be of interest to researchers, analysts, academics, and postgraduate students of South Asian politics, international security, and terrorism and political violence studies more broadly.

About the Author

Muhammad Feyyaz is an associate professor at Minhaj University, Lahore. He received his PhD from Queen’s University Belfast, UK.