Introduction: Encountering extremism: a critical examination of theoretical issues and local challenges - Alice Martini, Kieran Ford and Richard Jackson Part I: What's in a name? Theoretically deconstructing extremism 1 Interrogating the concept of (violent) extremism: a genealogical study of terrorism and counterterrorism discourses - Chin-Kuei Tsui 2 Conceptualising violent extremism: ontological, epistemological and normative issues - Sondre Lindahl 3 Knowledge, power, subject: constituting the extremist/moderate subject - Mariela Cuadro 4 The lone (white) wolf, 'terrorism' and the suspect community - Marie Breen-Smyth 5 The personal is political: feminist critiques of countering violent extremism - Jessica Auchter 6 A peace studies approach to countering extremism: do counter-extremism strategies produce peace? - Kieran Ford 7 What is an educational response to extreme and radical ideas and why does it matter? - Aislinn O'Donnell Part II: Extremism, countering extremism and preventing extremism: from theory to international and local challenges 8 Legitimising countering extremism at an international level: the role of the United Nations Security Council - Alice Martini 9 International PVE and Tunisia: a local critique of international donors' discourses - Guendalina Simoncini 10 Communication as legitimation in Spanish CVE: bringing lessons from the past - Laura Fernández de Mosteyrín 11 Extremists or patriots? Racialisation of countering violent extremism programming in the United States - Priya Dixit 12 The CVE paradox: inapplicability and necessity in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Tanja Dramac Jiries 13 Drivers or decoys? Women and the narrative of extremist violence in Pakistan - Afiya Shehrbano Zia 14 The mayor of Abuja and the 'Pied Piper' of Maiduguri: extremism and the 'politics of mutual envy' in Nigeria? - Akinyemi Oyawale Index.