Environmental and Animal Rights Extremism, Terrorism, and National Security.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One - Introductory Remarks -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - Extremism: A Theoretical Perspective -- 2.1 - General characteristics of extremism -- 2.2 - The sources of extremism -- 2.3 - Violence and extremism -- 2.4 - Resentment, extremism, terrorism -- Part Two - Animal Rights Extremism -- 3 - From the Compassion Principle to the Conception of Rights: Ideological Development of the Radical Wing of the Anima... -- 3.1 - The anthropocentric paradigm -- 3.2 - Postanthropocentric perspective -- 4 - Animal Rights Movement: Foundation, Development, and Radicalization -- 4.1 - The beginnings of animal rights activism -- 4.2 - The organizational perspective -- 4.3 - Animal liberation movement -- 4.4 - Animal welfare vs. animal rights -- 4.5 - Toward radicalism -- 5 - Violence in Defense of Animal Rights -- 5.1 - Hunt saboteurs association -- 5.2 - Band of mercy -- 5.3 - Animal liberation front -- 5.4 - Animal rights militia -- 5.5 - Justice department -- 5.6 - Stop huntington animal cruelty -- 5.7 - Animal rights radicalism from the psychological, organizational, and motivational perspective -- 5.8 - Justification of violence -- Part Three - Environmental Extremism -- 6 - Radical Ecology - Ideological Development of the Radical Wing of the Environmental Movement -- 6.1 - Toward radical ecology -- 6.2 - Deep ecology -- 6.3 - Anarchist social ecology -- 7 - Environmental Movement: The Origins, Development, and Radicalization -- 7.1 - Conservationism vs. preservationism -- 7.2 - The birth of environmentalism -- 7.3 - The birth of environmental radicalism -- 7.4 - Greenpeace -- 7.5 - Wise Use -- 8 - Violence in Defense of the Environment -- 8.1 - Monkeywrenching -- 8.2 - Sea shepherd conservation society -- 8.3 - Earth first! -- 8.4 - Earth liberation front.

Part Four - Strategy and Organization -- 9 - Leaderless Resistance and Netwars in the Activities of the Ecological Movement: Extremist Wings -- 9.1 - Traditional structure -- 9.2 - Toward new forms of organization -- 9.3 - The influence of the internet on the development of organizational structures -- 9.4 - Leaderless resistance -- 9.5 - Leaderless resistance in the ecoextremist movement -- 10 - "Lone Wolves" Strategy: The Case of Volkert van der Graaf and Theodore Kaczynski -- 10.1 - Terrorism of lone wolves -- 10.2 - Volkert van der Graaf -- 10.3 - Theodore Kaczynski -- Part Five - Developmental Perspectives -- 11 - New Terrorism: Determinants, Working Methods, and Directions of Development -- 11.1 - Globalization and terrorism -- 11.2 - Internet and terrorism -- 11.3 - Cyberterrorism -- 11.4 - Swarming -- 12 - The Future of Ecological Extremism -- 13 - Conclusions -- References -- Index.

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