Table Of Contents:

• About the Author
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction and Rationale
• Part I • Terrorism: A Conceptual Review
• Chapter 1 • Terrorism: First Impressions
• First Considerations
• Conceptual Considerations: Understanding Political Violence
• The Past as Prologue: Historical Perspectives on Terrorism
• Terrorism and Criminal Skill: Three Cases From the Modern Era
• Chapter 2 • The Nature of the Beast: Defining Terrorism
• Understanding Extremism: The Foundation of Terrorism
• Defining Terrorism: An Ongoing Debate
• A Definitional Problem: Perspectives on Terrorism
• The Political Violence Matrix
• Chapter 3 • Beginnings: The Causes of Terrorism
• Political Violence as Strategic Choice
• Political Violence as the Fruit of Injustice
• Moral Justifications for Political Violence
• Part II • Terrorist Environments and Typologies
• Chapter 4 • Terror From Above: Terrorism by the State
• The State as Terrorist: A State Terrorism Paradigm
• Violence Abroad: Terrorism as Foreign Policy
• Violence at Home: Terrorism as Domestic Policy
• The Problem of Accountability: Monitoring State Terrorism
• Chapter 5 • Terror From Below: Terrorism by Dissidents
• The Rebel as Terrorist: A Dissident Terrorism Paradigm
• Warring Against the State: Antistate Dissident Terrorism
• Warring Against a People: Communal Terrorism
• Operational Shifts: Dissidents and the New Terrorism
• Chapter 6 • Violence in the Name of the Faith: Religious Terrorism
• Primary and Secondary Motives: The Idiosyncratic Quality of Religious Terrorism
• Historical Cases in Point: Fighting, Dying, and Killing in the Name of the Faith
• State-Sponsored Religious Terrorism in the Modern Era
• Dissident Religious Terrorism in the Modern Era
• The Future of Religious Terrorism
• Chapter 7 • Violent Ideologies: Terrorism From the Left and Right
• Reactionaries and Radicals: The Classical Ideological Continuum
• Left-Wing Ideologies and Activism
• Class Struggle and National Liberation: The Terrorist Left
• Right-Wing Activism and Extremism
• Race and Order: The Terrorist Right
• Violent Ideologies in the New Era of Terrorism
• Chapter 8 • Terrorist Spillovers: International Terrorism
• Defining International Terrorism
• Globalized Revolution: Reasons for International Terrorism
• Globalized Solidarity: International Terrorist Networks
• The International Dimension of the New Terrorism
• Postscript: The “Stateless Revolutionaries”
• Chapter 9 • Emerging Terrorist Environments: Gender-Selective Political Violence and Criminal Dissident Terrorism
• Culture and Conflict: Gender-Selected Victims of Terrorist Violence
• Protecting the Enterprise: Criminal Dissident Terrorism
• A Global Problem: Regional Cases of Criminal Dissident Terrorism
• Part III • The Terrorist Trade and Counterterrorism
• Chapter 10 • Tools of the Trade: Tactics and Targets of Terrorists
• The Purpose: Terrorist Objectives
• The Means: Terrorist Methods
• The Focus: Terrorist Targets
• The Outcome: Is Terrorism Effective?
• Chapter 11 • The Information Battleground: Terrorist Violence and the Role of the Media
• Two Perspectives: The Media and Governments
• Understanding the Role of the Media
• A New Battleground: The War for the Information High Ground
• The Public’s Right to Know: Regulating the Media
• Chapter 12 • The American Case: Terrorism in the United States
• An Introduction to the American Case
• Background to Terrorism: Left-Wing Activism and Ideological Extremism in America
• Left-Wing Terrorism in the United States
• Background to Terrorism: Right-Wing Activism and Ideological Extremism in America
• Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States
• International Terrorism in the United States
• Postscript: Nonterrorist Mass Violence in the United States
• Chapter 13 • Counterterrorism: The Options
• Responding to Terror: The Scope of Options
• Warlike Operations: Counterterrorism and the Use of Force
• Operations Other Than War: Repressive Options
• Operations Other Than War: Conciliatory Options
• Applying the Rule of Law: Legalistic Options
• Part IV • Securing the Homeland
• Chapter 14 • A New Era: Homeland Security
• Homeland Security in Perspective
• The American Case: Homeland Security in the United States
• Civil Liberties and Securing the Homeland
• Chapter 15 • What Next?: The Future of Terrorism
• An Overview of Near-Term Projections
• The Future of Terrorism: Terrorist Environments in the 21st Century
• The Future of Terrorism: New Threats
• Controlling Terrorism: Ending Terrorist Campaigns and New Challenges
• Final Considerations
• Appendix A: Map References
• Appendix B: Prominent Persons and Organizations
• Appendix C: Two Thousand Years of Terror
• Glossary
• Notes
• Index