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Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of domestic and international terrorism that helps students develop the knowledge and skills needed to critically assess the underlying causes of modern terrorist violence.
The Seventh Edition includes new or expanded discussions of critical topics in terrorism, such as the evolution of right-wing extremism in Western countries, as well as analysis of recent events and updated terrorist tactics, weapons, and methods.
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Table of contents
- UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM - FRONT COVER
- UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM
- COPYRIGHT
- BRIEF CONTENTS
- DETAILED CONTENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION AND RATIONALE
- 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
- GLOSSARY OF TERMS
- NOTES
- INDEX