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Chapter 1: Terrorism: First Impressions 

The following publications provide an introduction to terrorism:

Bergen, Peter I. A Very Long War: The History of the War on Terror and the Battles With Al Qaeda Since 9/11. New York: Free Press, 2011.

Coll, Steve. The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. New York: Penguin, 2008.

Cronin, Isaac, ed. Confronting Fear: A History of Terrorism. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002.

Farber, David, ed. What They Think of Us: International Perceptions of the United States Since 9/11. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Gage, Beverly. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Griset, Pamala L., and Sue Mahan. Terrorism in Perspective. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2013.

Haberfeld, M.R., and Agostino von Hassel, eds. A New Understanding of Terrorism: Case Studies, Trajectories, and Lessons Learned. New York: Springer, 2009.

Heinze, Eric A., and Brent J. Steele, eds. Ethics, Authority, and War: Non-State Actors and the Just War Tradition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Hersh, Seymour M. Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Heymann, Phillip B., and Juliette N. Kayyem. Protecting Liberty in an Age of Terror. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.

Hobsbawm, Eric J. On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy. New York: Pantheon, 2008.

Hoffman, Bruce. Inside Terrorism, Revised and Expanded Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Kaczynski, Theodore. Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber.” Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 2010.

Laqueur, Walter, ed. Voices of Terror: Manifestos, Writings, and Manuals of Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Other Terrorists From Around the World and Throughout the Ages. New York: Reed Press, 2004.

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. The 9/11 Commission Report. New York: Norton, 2004.

 Reed, Charles, and David Ryall, eds. The Price of Peace: Just War in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Scheuer, Michael. Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror. Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2004.

Scheuer, Michael. Osama bin Laden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Tanner, Stephen. Afghanistan: A Military History From Alexander the Great to the War Against the Taliban. Updated edition. New York: Da Capo, 2009.

Chapter 2: The Nature of the Beast: Defining Terrorism 

The following publications provide discussions for defining terrorism and terrorism’s underlying

extremist motivations:

Carr, Mat thew. The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism. New York: New Press, 2007.

Gerstenfeld, Phyllis B. Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2013.

Hamm, Mark S., ed. Hate Crime: International Perspectives on Causes and Control. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson, 1994.

Howard, Lawrence, ed. Terrorism: Roots, Impact, Responses. New York: Praeger, 1992.

Kassimeris, George, ed. Playing Politics With Terrorism: A User’s Guide. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Laqueur, Walter. The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Lawrence, Frederick M. Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes Under American Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Sederberg, Peter C. Terrorist Myths: Illusion, Rhetoric, and Reality. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989.

Chapter 3: Beginnings: The Causes of Terrorism

The following publications provide discussions about the causes of terrorist behavior:

Crotty, Wi lliam, ed. Democratic Development and Political Terrorism: The Global Perspective. Boston:

Northeastern University Press, 2005.

Bloom, Mia. Bombshell: Women and Terrorism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Djilas, Milovan. Memoir of a Revolutionary. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

Eager, Page Whaley. From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists: Women and Political Violence. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.

Forest, James J. F., ed. The Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training, and Root Causes. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006.

Franks, Jason. Rethinking the Roots of Terrorism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Touchstone, 1996.

Khaled, Leila. My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973.

Martinez, Thomas, and John Guinther. Brotherhood of Murder. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

McKelvey, Tara, ed. One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2007.

Nassar, Jamal R. Globalization and Terrorism: The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares, 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

Ocalan, Abdul lah. Prison Writings: The Roots of Civilization. London: Pluto, 2007.

Pedahzur, Ami and Arie Perliger. Jewish Terrorism in Israel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

Perry, Barbara. In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crimes. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Reich, Walter, ed. Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, States of Mind. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 1998.

Shultz, Richard H., and Andrea J. Dew. Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary

Combat. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Sjoberg, Laura, and Caron E. Gentry. Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women’s Violence in Global Politics. London: Zed Books, 2007.

Skaine, Rosemarie. Female Suicide Bombers. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.

Chapter 4: Terror From Above: Terrorism by the State 

The following publications provide discussions on state-sponsored terrorism:

Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. New York: Harper, 1958.

Byman, Daniel. Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Dror, Yehezkel. Crazy States: A Counterconventional Strategic Problem. New York: Kraus, Milwood, 1980.

Goren, Roberta, and Jillian Becker, eds. The Soviet Union and Terrorism. London: Allen & Unwin, 1984.

Mann, Michael. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

McSherry, J. Patrice. Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America. Lanham, MD:

Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

O’Sullivan, Meghan L. Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2003.

Stohl, Michael, and George Lopez, eds. The State as Terrorist: The Dynamics of Governmental Violence and Repression. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984.

Tucker, Robert C. Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above, 1928–1941. New York: Norton, 1990.

Wright, Thomas C. State Terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

Chapter 5: Terror From Below: Terrorism by Dissidents 

The following publications provide discussions on dissident activism, protest movements, and violence:

Barkan, Steven E., and Lynne L. Snowden. Collective Violence. 2nd ed. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan

Publishing, 2007.

Bell, J. Boywer. The IRA 1968–2000: Analysis of a Secret Army. London: Frank Cass, 2000.

Cambanis, Thanassis. A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel. New York: Free Press, 2010.

Cromer, Geralde. Insurgent Terrorism. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006.

Dekker, Ted, and Carl Medearis. Tea With Hezbollah: Sitting at the Enemies’ Table. New York: Doubleday, 2010.

Follian, John. Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal. New York: Arcade

Publishing, 2011.

Horne, Alistair. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962. New York: New York Review Books, 2006.

Hughes, James. Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Jaber, Hala. Hezbollah: Born With a Vengeance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Karmon, Eli. Coalitions Between Terrorist Organizations: Revolutionaries, Nationalists, and Islamists. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2005.

Mallin, Jay, ed. Terror and Urban Guerrillas: A Study of Tactics and Documents. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1971.

Mitchell, Thomas G. When Peace Fails: Lessons From Belfast for the Middle East. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.

Norton, Augustus R. Hezbollah: A Short History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Raab, David. Terror in Black September: The First Eyewitness Account of the Infamous 1970 Hijacking.

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Rosen, David M. Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Shay, Shaul. Islamic Terror Abductions in the Middle East. Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2007.

Shirlow, Peter. The End of Ulster Loyalism? New York: Manchester University Press, 2012.

Spaaij, Ramon. Lone-Wolf Terrorism. The Hague, Netherlands: COT Institute for Safety, Security and Crisis Management, 2007.

Wickham-Crowley, Timothy P. Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Insurgents and Regimes Since 1956. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Chapter 6: Violence in the Name of the Faith: Religious Terrorism 

The following publications discuss the motives, goals, and characteristics of religious extremism:

Allen, Tim. Trial Justice: The International Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army. New York: Zed Books, 2006.

Bader, Eleanor J., and Patricia Baird-Windle. Targets of Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Bhutto, Benazir. Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West. New York: Harper, 2008.

Crews, Robert D., and Amin Tarzi, eds. The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Fishman, Brian. Dysfunction and Decline: Lessons Learned From Inside al-Qa’ida in Iraq. West Point, NY: Harmony Project, The Combating Terrorism Center, 2009.

Gerges, Fawaz A. Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006.

Halevi, Yossi Klein. Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: An American Story. New York: Little, Brown, 1995.

Huband, Mark. Warriors of the Prophet: The Struggle for Islam. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1999.

Jamal, Arif. Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir. Hoboken, NJ: Melville, 2010.

Kelsay, John. Arguing the Just War in Islam. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Kepel, Gilles, and Jean-Pierre Milelli, eds. Trans., Pascale Ghazaleh. Al Qaeda in Its Own Words. Cambridge, MA: Belknap of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Lifton, Robert Jay. Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism. New York: Holt, 2000.

Miniter, Richard. Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. New York: Sentinel HC, 2011.

Norton, Augustus Richard. Hezbollah: A Short History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.

Reidel, Bruce. The Search for al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010.

Rotberg, Robert I., ed. Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

Schofield, Victor i a. Kashmir in Conf lict: India, Pakistan, and the Unending War. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2010.

Stern, Jessica. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2003.

Tamimi, Azzam. Hamas: A History From Within. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch, 2007.

Chapter 7: Violent Ideologies: Terrorism From the Left and Right 

The following publications give insight into leftist ideologies, movements, and personalities:

Djilas, Milovan. The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System. New York: Praeger, 1957.

Djilas, Milovan. The Unperfect Society: Beyond the New Class. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove, 1963.

Kropotkin, Peter. The Black Flag: Peter Kropotkin on Anarchism. St. Petersburg, FL: Red and Black Publishers, 2010.

Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man. Boston: Beacon, 1964.

Marighella, Carlos. Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla. Chapel Hill, NC: Documentary Publications, 1985.

Marshall, Peter. Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2010.

Schiller, Margit. Remembering the Armed Struggle: Life in Baader Meinhof. Darlington, NSW, Australia: Zidane Press, 2009.

Tucker, Robert C., ed. The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: Norton, 1972.

The following publications give insight into rightist ideologies, movements, and personalities:

Anti-Defamation League. The Skinhead International: A Worldwide Survey of Neo-Nazi Skinheads. New York: Anti-Defamation League, 1995.

Bar-On, Tamir. Where Have All the Fascists Gone? Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007.

Kaplan, Jeffrey, and Tore Bjørgo, eds. Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.

Kelly, Robert J., and Jess Maghan, eds. Hate Crime: The Global Politics of Polarization. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.

Lee, Martin A. The Beast Reawakens: Fascism’s Resurgence From Hitler’s Spymasters to Today’s Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Lipstadt, Deborah E. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. New York: Plume, 1994.

Chapter 8: Terrorist Spillovers: International Terrorism 

The following publications provide discussions about the nature of international terrorism and cases in point about international terrorists:

Follain, John. Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal. New York: Arcade

Publishing, 2011.

Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed, and Laura Grossman. Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K. Washington, DC: FDD Press, 2009.

Gerges, Fawaz A. The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Gunaratna, Rohan. Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Herman, Edward S. The Real Ter ror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda. Boston: South End Press, 1982.

Kegley, Charles W., Jr., ed. The New Global Terrorism: Characteristics, Causes, Controls. New York: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Lutz, James M., and Brenda J. Lutz, eds. Global Terrorism. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Perkins, Samuel, ed. Homegrown Terror and American Jihadists: Assessing the Threat. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Publishers, 2011.

Pillar, Paul R. Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2001.

Reeve, Simon. The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999.

Sageman, Marc. Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Siniver, Asaf, ed. International Terrorism Post-9/11: Comparative Dynamics and Responses. London: Routledge, 2010.

Chapter 9: Emerging Terrorist Environments: Gender-Selective Political Violence and Criminal Dissident Terrorism 

The following publications discuss the motives, goals, and characteristics of gender-selective and criminal extremism:

Ehrenfeld, Rachel. Narco-Terrorism. New York: Basic Books, 1990.

Farr, Kathryn. Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children. New York: Worth, 2004.

Grabosky, Peter, and Michael Stohl. Crime and Terrorism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2010.

Grayson, George W. Narco-violence and a Failed State?. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010.

Holmes, Jennifer S. Guns, Drugs, and Development. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.

Jones, Adam, ed. Gendercide and Genocide. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.

Kenney, Michael. From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007.

Prunier, Girard. Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.

Reichel, Philip, ed. Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.

Tarazona-Sevillano, Gabriela. Sendero Luminoso and the Threat of Narcoterrorism. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1990.

Voeten, Teun. How de Body? One Man’s Terrifying Journey Through an African War. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2002.

Chapter 10: Tools of the Trade: Tactics and Targets of Terrorists

The following publications provide discussions on terrorist objectives and methods:

Bergen, Peter L. Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Berko, Anat. The Path to Paradise: The Inner World of Suicide Bombers. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2009.

Cragin, Kim, et al. Sharing the Dragon’s Teeth: Terrorist Groups and the Exchange of New Technologies. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2007.

Dolnik, Adam. Understanding Terrorist Innovation: Technology, Tactics, and Global Trends. London: Routledge, 2007.

Frantz, Douglas, and Catherine Collis. The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets—And How We Could Have Stopped Him. New York: Twelve Books, 2007.

Glucklich, Ariel. Dying for Heaven: Holy Pleasure and Suicide Bombers. New York: HarperOne, 2009.

Hafez, Mohammed M. Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007.

Janczewski, Lech J., and Andrew M. Colarik, eds. Cyber Warfare and Cyber Terrorism. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2008.

Katz, Samuel M. The Hunt for the Engineer: How Israeli Agents Tracked the Hamas Master Bomber. New York: Fromm International, 2001.

Levi, Michael. On Nuclear Terrorism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Mueller, Robert. Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al Qaeda. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Oliver, Anne Marie, and Paul F. Steinberg. The Road to Martyrs’ Square: A Journey Into the World of the Suicide Bomber. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Pape, Robert Anthony. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York: Random House, 2005.

Powell, William. The Anarchist Cookbook. New York: Lyle Stuart, 1971; assigned to Barricade Books, 1989.

Ranstorp, Magnus, and Magnus Normark, eds. Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism: Challenges and a New Approach. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Stern, Jessica. The Ultimate Terrorists. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Thornton, Rod. Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the Twenty-first Century. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007.

Tucker, Jonathan B., ed. Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

Zubay, Geoffrey, et al., eds. Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and Their Weaponization. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Chapter 11: The Information Battleground: Terrorist Violence and the Role of the Media 

The following publications provide discussions for evaluating the role of the media in the reporting of terrorism, national conflict, and political dissent:

Davies, Nick. Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion, and Propaganda in the Global Media. London: Vintage Books, 2009.

Davis, Richard, and Diana Owen. New Media and American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Edwards, David, and David Cromwell. Newspeak in the 21st Century. London: Pluto Press, 2009.

Gitlin, Todd. The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980.

Herbst, Philip. Talking Terrorism: A Dictionary of the Loaded Language of Political Violence. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.

Kavoori, Anandam P., and Todd Fraley, eds. Media, Terrorism, and Theory: A Reader. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Knight ley, Phillip. The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth Maker From the Crimea to Iraq. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Chapter 12: The American Case: Terrorism in the United States 

The following publications discuss the nature of terrorism in the United States and the root causes of

political violence in American society:

Dunbar, David, and Brad Reagan, eds. Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts. New York: Hearst Books, 2006.

Emerson, Steven. American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us. New York: Free Press, 2002.

Emerson, Steven. Jihad Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the U.S. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2006.

George, John, and Laird Wilcox. American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists, and Others. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1996.

German, Mike. Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2007.

Graebmer, William. Patty’s Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Kurst-Swanger, Karl. Worship and Sin: An Exploration of Religion-Related Crime in the United States. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.

MacDonald, Andrew [William Pierce]. The Turner Diaries. New York: Barricade, 1978.

McCann, Joseph T. Terrorism on American Soil: A Concise History of Plots and Perpetrators From the Famous to the Forgotten. Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications, 2006.

McCarthy, Timothy Patrick, and John McMillian. The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition. New York: New Press, 2003.

Michel, Lou, and Dan Herbeck. American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing.

New York: Regan Books, 2001.

Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Ridgeway, James. Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture. 2nd ed. New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1995.

Ronczkowski, Michael. Terrorism and Organized Hate Crime: Intelligence Gathering, Analysis, and Investigations. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2006.

Sargent, Lyman Tower, ed. Extremism in America: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1995.

Smith, Brent L. Terrorism in America: Pipe Bombs and Pipe Dreams. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Stern, Kenneth S. A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Wilkerson, Cathy. Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007.

Zakin, Susan. Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002.

Zeskind, Leonard. Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement From the Margins to the Mainstream. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. 

Chapter 13: Counterterrorism: The Options

The following publications provide information about counterterrorist units and intelligence agencies:

Andrew, Christopher. Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community. New York: Penguin, 1987.

Bamford, James. Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

Begg, Moazzam, and Victoria Brittain. Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar. New York: New Press, 2006.

Berentsen, Gary. Human Intelligence, Counterterrorism, and National Leadership: A Practical Guide. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2008.

Betancourt, Ingrid. Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle. New York: Penguin, 2010.

Beyer, Cornelia, and Michael Bauer, eds. Effectively Countering Terrorism: The Challenges, Prevention, Preparedness, and Response. Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2009.

Biersteker, Thomas J., and Sue E. Eckert, eds. Countering the Financing of Terrorism. London: Routledge, 2008.

Bowden, Mark. The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012.

Coulson, Danny O., and Elaine Shannon. No Heroes: Inside the FBI’s Secret Counter-Terror Force. New York: Pocket, 1999.

Crank, John P., and Patricia E. Gregor. Counter-Terrorism After 9/11: Justice, Security, and Ethics Reconsidered. New York, Anderson, 2005.

Daalder, Ivo H., ed. Beyond Preemption: Force and Legitimacy in a Changing World. Washington, DC:

Brookings Institution Press, 2007.

Dolnik, Adam, and Keith M. Fitzgerald. Negotiating Hostage Crises With the New Terrorists. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.

Donahue, Laura K. The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge

University Press, 2008.

Gardner, Hall. American Global Strategy and the “War on Terrorism.” Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007.

Ginbar, V. Why Not Torture Terrorists? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Grey, Stephen. Ghost Plane: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Rendition Programme. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006.

Harclerode, Peter. Secret Soldiers: Special Forces in the War Against Terrorism. London: Cassel, 2000.

Howard, Russell D., and Reid L. Sawyer. Defeating Terrorism: Shaping the New Security Environment.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Klein, Aaron J. Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel’s Deadly Response. New York: Random House, 2007.

Maras, Marie-Helen. Counterterrorism. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013.

Mazzetti, Mark. The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth. New York: Penguin Press, 2013.

Pedahzur, Ami. The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

Reeve, Simon. One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation “Wrath of God.” New York: Arcade, 2000.

Rich, Paul B., and Isabelle Duyvesteyn, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Rid, Thomas, and Thomas Keaney, eds. Understanding Counterinsurgency: Doctrine, Operations, and Challenges. New York: Routledge, 2010.

Shah, Niaz A. Self-Defense in Islamic and International Law. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Suskind, Ron. The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Thomas, Gordon. Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad. 5th ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009.

Tophoven, Rolf. GSG 9: German Response to Terrorism. Koblenz, Germany: Bernard and Graefe, 1984.

Warrick, Joby. The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA. New York: Doubleday, 2011.

Chapter 14: A New Era: Homeland Security 

The following publications are good analyses of the concept of homeland security and the homeland security bureaucracy:

Aronowitz, Stanley, and Heather Gautney, eds. Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

Beckman, James. Comparative Legal Approaches to Homeland Security and Anti-Terrorism. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007.

Booth, Ken, and Tim Dunne, eds. Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.

Borrelli, J. V. Bioterrorism: Prevention, Preparedness, and Protection. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2007.

Clark, Robert M. Intelligence Collection. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2014.

Coen, Bob, and Eric Nadler. Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2009.

CQ Researcher. Issues in Terrorism and Homeland Security: Selections From CQ Researcher. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011.

Elias, Bartholomew. Airport and Aviation Security: U.S. Policy and Strategy in the Age of Global Terrorism. Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach Publications/Taylor & Francis, 2010.

Graff, Garrett M. The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror. New York: Little, Brown, 2011.

Kamien, David G. The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Monje, Scot t C. The Central Intelligence Agency: A Documentary History. Westport, CT: Greenwood,

2008.

Purpura, Philip P. Terrorism and Homeland Security: An Introduction With Applications. New York: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.

Pushies, Fred J. Deadly Blue: Battle Stories of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command. New York: American Management Association, 2009.

Sauter, Mark A., and James Jay Carafano. Homeland Security: A Complete Guide to Understanding,

Preventing, and Surviving Terrorism. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

Schawb, Stephen Irving Max. Guantánamo, USA: The Untold History of America’s Cuban Outpost. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.

Smith, Cary Stacy. The Patriot Act: Issues and Controversies. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 2010.

Tsang, Steve. Intelligence and Human Rights in the Era of Global Terrorism. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.

Walker, Clive. The Law and Terrorism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Wilson, Richard Ashby, ed. Human Rights in the War on Terror. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Worthington, Andy. The Guantánamo Files. Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007.

Chapter 15: What Next? The Future of Terrorism 

The following publications project challenges facing the world community in the present and in the near future:

Heiberg, Marianne, Prendan O’Leary, and John Tirman, eds. Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Holmes, Jennifer S. Terrorism and Democratic Stability Revisited. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2008.

The following publications are an eclectic assortment of recommendations that provide classic—and arguably timeless—insight into the nature of dissident resistance, ideologies of liberty, state manipulation, and revolution.

Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay, and James Madison. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States. New York: Modern Library, 1937.

Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon. New York: Macmillan, 1963.

Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. Edited by David Spitz. New York: Norton, 1975.

Moore, Barrington, Jr. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston: Beacon, 1966.

Orwell, George. Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1946.