ABSTRACT
How is it that terrorist groups decline or disappear?1 Social scientists, government analysts of terrorism, and law enforcement specialists show great interest in the origins of violent political groups. They have shown the same interest in the origins of terrorist bands, no matter how small, but no parallel body of literature has tracked, and treated of, the end of these same groups. Only a few articles,2 and no books, delimit and plumb this subject. Yet it is especially important now, given the engagement of many governments in a protracted “global war on terrorism.”
