Countering Global Terrorism and Insurgency ― Calculating the Risk of State-failure in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq

Countering Global Terrorism and Insurgency: Calculating the Risk of State Failure in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq explores issues of terrorism and insurgency in relation to the process of state failure. It focuses on the current trend of religious extremism as a means of understanding and re-thinking the debates around the connections between terrorism and insurgency and state failure. Using the case studies of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq it examines the underlying causes and conditions necessary for terrorism and insurgency to occur, while countering the common perception that state failure is the central cause. Underhill presents a better understanding of the concepts of terrorism, insurgency and state failure on an individual and comparative level, and analyses more deeply the underlying issues affecting the world's most active terrorist and insurgent hotspots: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Natasha Underhill is a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK where she is dedicated to researching in the areas of terrorism, international relations, state failure and the Middle East. She received her PhD from University College Cork, Ireland.