Description
These original essays describe the internal life of terrorist organizations in fascinating detail. They show how no description of terrorist behaviour is adequate without a grasp of the deep tensions that often characterize such groups, and an appreciation of how firmly implanted in our culture terrorist traditions have become, since the middle of the nineteenth century.
Table of Contents
Introduction, David C. Rapoport; Part I Internal Structure and Conflict; Chapter 1 Theories of Terrorism, Martha Crenshaw; Chapter 2 The International World as some Terrorists have Seen it, David C. Rapoport; Chapter 3 The Internal Dynamics of the FLQ During the October Crisis of 1970, Ronald D. Crelinsten; Chapter 4 A Battlegroup Divided, David Th. Schiller; Chapter 5 The Shining Path and Peruvian Terrorism, Gordon H. McCormick; Part II Motivations and Justifications; Chapter 6 The Terrorist Revolution, Zeev Ivianski; Chapter 7 When Terrorists Do the Talking, Bonnie Cordes; Chapter 8 The Logic of Religious Violence, Mark Juergensmeyer; Chapter 9 From Messianic Pioneering to Vigilante Terrorism, Ehud Sprinzak; Chapter 10 Cultural Narrative and the Motivation of the Terrorist, Khachig Tololyan; Part III Concluding Sequel; Chapter 11 Terror as an Instrument of Foreign Policy, Grant Wardlaw; Chapter 12 ’Leaderless Resistance’, Jeffrey Kaplan;
