Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues offers a multidisciplinary, comprehensive exploration of domestic and international terrorism that helps students develop the knowledge and skills needed to critically assess the expressions and underlying causes of terrorism.
Part I • Terrorism: A Conceptual Review
Chapter 1 • Terrorism: First Impressions
Chapter 2 • The Nature of the Beast: Defining Terrorism
Chapter 3 • Beginnings: The Causes of Terrorism
Part II • Terrorist Environments and Typologies
Chapter 4 • Terror From Above: Terrorism by the State
Chapter 5 • Terror From Below: Terrorism by Dissidents
Chapter 6 • Violence in the Name of the Faith: Religious Terrorism
Chapter 7 • Violent Ideologies: Terrorism From the Left and Right
Chapter 8 • Terrorist Spillovers: International Terrorism
Chapter 9 • Emerging Terrorist Environments: Gender-Selective Political Violence and Criminal Dissident Terrorism
Part III • The Terrorist Trade and Counterterrorism
Chapter 10 • Tools of the Trade: Tactics and Targets of Terrorists
Chapter 11 • The Information Battleground: Terrorist Violence and the Role of the Media
Chapter 12 • The American Case: Terrorism in the United States
Chapter 13 • Counterterrorism: The Options
Part IV • Securing the Homeland
Chapter 14 • A New Era: Homeland Security
Chapter 15 • What Next? The Future of Terrorism
Appendix A: Map References
Appendix B: Prominent Persons and Organizations
Appendix C: Two Thousand Years of Terror—Historical Examples
Glossary of Terms
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