Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Landscape of Political Violence / Stathis N. Kalyvas -- Sociological and Criminological Explanations of Terrorism / Daren G. Fisher, Laura Dugan -- Anthropological and Cultural Approaches to the Study of Terrorism / Siniša Malešević -- Historical Approaches to Terrorism / Brenda J. Lutz -- Critical Approaches to the Study of Terrorism / Charlotte Heath-Kelly -- The Causes of Terrorism / Jeff Goodwin -- Nationalism and Terrorism / Richard English -- Religion and Terrorism / Jeffrey Haynes -- Ideology and Terrorism / Alia Brahimi -- Single-Issue Terrorism / Gary Ackerman -- State Terrorism / Tim Wilson -- Defining Terrorism: A Conceptual Minefield / Ben Saul -- Terrorism, Civil War, and Insurgency / Jessica A. Stanton -- The Crime-Terror Nexus and its Fallacies / Vanda Felbab-Brown -- Terrorist Organizational Dynamics / Brian Phillips -- Terrorist Technological Innovation / Evan Perkoski -- The Strategic Model of Terrorism Revisited / Max Abrahms -- Suicide Terrorism / Rashmi Singh -- Women and Terrorism / Caron E. Gentry -- Financing Terrorism / Harold Trinkunas -- The Evolution of Terrorism Event Databases / Gary LaFree -- Terrorism and State Sponsorship in World Politics / David B. Carter -- Terrorism in Latin America / Jennifer S. Holmes -- Terrorism in the Middle East / Boaz Ganor -- Terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Recapitulation of Causes and Consequences / Juliet U. Elu, Gregory N. Price -- Terrorism in Asia / Brahma Chellaney -- Counterterrorism Strategies / Daniel Byman -- Counterterrorism and International Law / Andrea Bianchi -- Torture and the War on Terrorism / Courtenay R. Conrad -- Terrorism & Counterterrorism: A Policy Perspective / Juliette Bird -- Teaching about Terrorism: Methodology and Ethics / Gregory D. Miller -- The Moral Dimensions of Terrorism / Virginia Held -- Academic Research and the Intelligence Community: Some Reflections / Jonathan Evans -- Constructing the Field of Terrorism / Martha Crenshaw -- Institutionalizing the Field of Terrorism / Alex P. Schmid -- Revising the Field of Terrorism / Richard Jackson -- New Techniques in Teaching Terrorism / David A. Siegel -- The Long 20th Century / John Bew, Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens -- The Rise and Fall of Terrorism / Erin Miller, Susan Fahey -- Terrorism in Western Europe: A Homegrown Trademark / Luis De la Calle, Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca -- Geographical Approaches to the Study of Terrorism / Michael G. Findley, Joseph Young -- The Pre-History of Terrorism / Warren C. Brown -- The Study of Terrorism: Achievements and Challenges Ahead / Erica Chenoweth, Andreas Gofas -- Psychological Approaches to the Study of Terrorism / John G. Horgan -- European Political Violence During the Long 19th Century / Martin A. Miller -- Organizational & Institutional Approaches: Social Movement Studies Perspectives on Political Violence / Lorenzo Bosi, Donatella della Porta, Stefan Malthaner -- Formal Approaches to the Study of Terrorism / Jacob N. Shapiro.

This title systematically integrates the substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues in studying and teaching these vital phenomena. This handbook goes further than most existing collections by giving structure and direction to the fast-growing but somewhat disjointed field of terrorism studies. The volume locates terrorism within the wider spectrum of political violence instead of engaging in the widespread tendency towards treating terrorism as an exceptional act. Moreover, the volume makes a case for studying terrorism within its socio-historical context.

Specialized.

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