Full Description
This new two volume collection allows the reader to track the evolution of (primarily) Western thinking about terrorism over recent decades. Haunted, unsurprisingly, by the spectre of 11 September 2001, it gives writings of the late 1990s, in which authors come to terms with the emergence of a new form of terrorism, a particular poignancy. Articles written immediately after 9/11 show the search for context and meaning that followed the attacks. And essays since the attacks chart the development of the 'war on terror', and the various mutations of jihadi movements that continue to dominate headlines today.
Contents
Volume I: Introduction PART 1 Combatting and responses to terrorism 1 Confronting nuclear, biological and chemical terrorism 2 Biological terrorism and public health 3 Review essay: terrorism and deterrence 4 Nuclear terrorism: a disheartening dissent 5 Iran: breaking the deadlock 6 Managing the consequences of nuclear terrorism PART 2 Current trends and organisations 7 Dealing with radical Islam: the case of Jordan 8 Review essay: terrorism: new meets old 9 The Taliban papers 10 Jihad in Europe: the wider context 11 Passive sponsors of terrorism 12 Europe's jihadist dilemma 13 'Underkill': fighting extremists amid populations 14 Privacy and surveillance in the age of terror 15 Jihadi video in the 'war of ideas' 16 Syria's growing jihad 17 Turkey's Syria predicament 18 Can Iraq be saved? 19 The media strategy of ISIS 20 Assessing Syria's jihad.
