This article reviews the literature on the onset and dynamics of domestic terrorism, with
special emphasis on the interactions between terrorist organizations, the state, and society …

The current trend toward suicide bombings began in Lebanon in the early 1980s. The
practice soon spread to civil conflicts in Sri Lanka, the Kurdish areas of Turkey, and …

Several states, including Israel and the United States, have put decapitation tactics, which
seek to kill or capture leaders of terrorist organizations, at the forefront of their …

That 'terrorism research'is mired by epistemological, methodological and political-normative
problems is well established. What is usually overlooked is that, beyond the difficulties …

Terrorism is one of the most significant security threats that we face in the twenty-first
century. Not surprisingly, there is now a plethora of books on the subject, offering definitions …

This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and uses
it to analyze the forces shaping the life cycle of violent political movements. This new edition …

Terrorist organizations are both imitative and innovative in character. While the drivers of
imitation have been extensively modeled using concepts such as contagion and diffusion …

Understanding why and how individuals participate in militant organizations has been the
focus of an increasing amount of scholarship. Traditionally, these studies focus at either the …

This article reviews the existing literature, mostly from political science, on suicide bombing.
A prominent weapon in the toolkit of violent nonstate actors for a generation, suicide …

This in-depth, historical analysis of terrorism investigates the major funding streams of
terrorists, insurgents, guerrillas, warlords, militias, and criminal organizations throughout the …